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Opposition wins no-confidence vote, 49-44
By UAT CQtUHS
The government received a slap in
the face from the opposition yesterday
when a motion of no-confidence in the
prime minister carried by a vote of 49 -
44, with one abstention; Despite its
seeming victory, however, the opposi-
tion could not muster the 61 votes
needed to bring down the government
The motion was filed by Labor,
Meretz and Hadash over growing
unemployment
Barak holds
‘emergency
meeting’ with
King Hussein
, ByMCHALYUPajIAH
Labor Party Chairman Ehud
Barak flew to Amman yesterday
for what was described as “an
emergency meeting” with Jordan’s
KingrHussein.
Hussein, who had met
Palestinian Authority Chairman
Yasser Arafat on Sunday, tele-
Ban* takes fhe'Bibi
Bypass^ | page id
phoned Barak that night and said
be wanted to discuss Middle East
issues with him before meeting
with Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak later this week. Barak is
to meet Arafat in Gaza on
Thursday.
Hussein, who has made no
secret of ignoring Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
lately, dispatched the royal heli-
copter to bring Barak to his
palace. Barak flew by himself,
with even his closest aides
remaining at home.
"Perhaps the urgency of the
visit is a .reflection of the depth
of King Hussein's concern,
which is similar to the concern
expressed by Mubarak at our
meeting last week,” Barak said
on his return.
He said Hussein is deeply wor-
ried about the danger erf armed
conflict between Israel and the
Palestinians, as well as by the lack
of confidence among the Arab
states which have signed peace
agreements with Israel,
Barak briefed his faction col-
leagues on his talk with Hussein,
which in Jordan was described as
"shrouded in secrecy.”
"Hussein fears that a halt in the
peace process will affect the inter-
nal affairs of Arab states which
have signed peace treaties with
Israel, such as Jordan and Egypt,”
Barak said.
Barak dismissed the possibility
of criticism from Netanyahu over
his meetings with world and Arab
leaders. Last week Barak met
Britain’s Prime Minister Tony
Blair.
“I don’t need anyone $ permis-
sion to continue contacting world
leaders, whether as opposition
leader or as one who has met
them before. I update
Netanyahu's office and the for-
eign minister’s office as to my
meetings, and will see to it that he
is briefed personally if neces-
sary,” Barak said- ...
The Likud sharply criticized
Barak in a statement yesterday,
saying that he is "encouraging the
Arab world to obtain further com-
promises from Israel.”
It was the second time this govern-
ment has failed to muster enough
votes to defeat a motion of no-confi-
dence.
The vote was marked by the absence
of the National Religious Party MKs,
who decided to continue their boycott
over a dispute concerning the appoint-
ment of religious court judges.
Shmaryahu Ben-Tzur, deputy coali-
tion chairman, was the only NRP MK
who voted, supporting the government.
He said the Prime Minister’s Office
was pressuring him to take part in the
vote.
Likud MKs David Re’em, Binyamin
Ze’ev Begin and Dan Meridor were
noticeably absent.
Justice Minister Tzahi Hanegbi
arrived too late to vote, but supported
the government in a later no-confi-
dence motion by MoledeL Moledet’s
motion over the violence in Hebron
failed by 44 to 49, with nine absten-
tions.
Earlier yesterday. Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu rejected the
NRP's attempts to pressure him. say-
ing: “We must act responsibly. This
method of threatening to topple the
government for every demand, even the
most justified demand, it not accept-
able. I cannot accept it. Anyone who
wants to threaten to bring the govern-
ment down, can go ahead and threat-
en.”
Meretz leader Yossi Sarid said after
the vote: "This is a government without
a head and a head without a govern-
ment, and if it wasn’t the government
of the State of Israel, we’d be bursting
with laughter.”
Deputy Defense Minister Silvan
Shalom, who liaises between the gov-
ernment and the Knesset, noted that
“the coalition still has a large majority,
but if the opposition wants to savor the
moment, so be it”
Nissan Slomiansky (NRP) said the
vote proved there is no coalition with-
out his party.
Labor whip Ra’anan Cohen called on
the prime minister to resign and declare
early elections.
“The government’s loss [last night]
proves that Netanyahu’s coalition is
disintegrating, and does not have faith
in the prime minister or even in the
existence of the government,” Cohen
said. “It is no coincidence that the
Knesset voted no-confidence in the
failed social policies of the Likud,
which wastes money on the settlements
while there is growing unemploy-
ment."
Naveh to US on
peace mission
Levy to meet Arafat in Brussels
By JAY BUSHNSKY
By JAY BUSHQfSKY
and H&1EL KUTTIER
In a new and possibly urgent
effort to rescue the peace process
from collapse under the weight of
mutual recriminations and lack of
trust. Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu is sending cabinet sec-
retary Dan Naveh to Washington
with new .“bridging proposals” for
pres en t a t i on to US peace envoy
Dennis Ross.
The prime minister told mem-
bers of his LUcud-Gesher-Tsomet
Knesset friction that these ideas
could close the gap between the
Israeli and Palestinian negotiating
positions.
Naveh has been serving as the
Israeli negotiating team’s coordi-
nator, subject to guidelines handed
down by Foreign Minister David
Levy and approved by Netanyahu.
The Naveh mission coincides
with indications the US is devel-
oping a new formula designed to
bring the two sides back to the
bargaining table after a four-
month interruption.
This was confirmed in
Washington by Saeb Erefcat, the
Palestinian Authority’s minister
for local affairs and former chief
PA negotiator with Israel. He was
quoted by the Associated Press as
saying the US is preparing a new
proposal to get the talks started
again.
The US proposal reportedly
would entail a temporary halt in
construction of the Har Homa
housing project on Jerusalem’s
southeastern outskirts, ay mutual
commitment to prevent street vio-
lence, a resumption of security
cooperation, and acceleration of
bilateral negotiations.
Netanyahu’s director of commu-
nications, David Bar-IUan, has
declared repeatedly that suspension
of Har Homa construction is “not
part of the Oslo Accords equation.”
He also rejected toe idea of a work
slowdown at toe rite.
“It’s like being a little pregnant,”
be said, implying that since con-
struction is under way it must pro-
ceed apace.
Sources here believe the gist of
the new American idea is that
negotiators could skip toe volatile
“further redeployment” issue - the
next West Bank troop withdrawal
due to take place by October -and
Dan Naveh, bound for DC
(Isaac Haraxi)
move directly to the final-status
phase. This presumably would be
a gesture in Israel’s favor.
As quid pro quo, the Israeli ride
would stop all settlement con-
struction, including toe Har Homa
project, as a gesture to toe
Palestinians. To that extent the US
proposal is similar to toe EU for-
mula being promoted by its peace
envoy, Miguel Moratinos.
The prime minister said his
baric idea, a speed-up of final-sta-
tus negotiations, "is a good foun-
‘Arafat behind planned Har
Bracha assault?, Page 2
dation for moving the peace talks
forward. The deliberations which
have begun in toe cabinet about
toe principles inherent in a perma-
nent arrangement can ’serve as a
basis for advancing the peace
process between the Palestinians
and us.”
However, Netanyahu said toe
forward movement can begin only
when Israel sees a baric change in
the PA’s attitude toward security
and after measures are taken
’ against toe Palestinian policemen
who are suspected of terrorist
activity against Israel.
“I want to see systematic action
and an uprooting of these elements
as well as action against the senior
officers who are involved in this
issue,” he said.
Referring to the Palestinian
Police's discovery of an arms
cache and bomb factory in Beit
Sahur near Bethlehem, toe prime
minister said he would like to see
such operations on a continuous
basis told not only as a result of
local pressure following the arrest
of the PA police suspects.
This action against the Islamic
extremist Hamas organization,
which reportedly stored the
weapons and ammunition, “should
—be performed regularly or daily,"
Netanyahu went on, “in which
case we would be impressed much
more.”
In Washington, State
Department spokesman Nicholas
Bums said the administration was
“Very pleased” by Erekat’s visit
last week and looks forward to
meeting Naveh today.
Naveh will be in Washington for
just a few hours for his meeting
wito Ross, before flying back to
Israel tonight.
Bums said the US has “never
been shy about sharing ideas” with
the parties and is trying to serve as
an “effective mediator” between
them.
A senior US official said the
Palestinian Authority must take
action against its security officials
who are implicated in terrorist
plans rimed at Israeli civilians if
peace talks are to resume in a
proper atmosphere.
“We’ve made it explicitly clear
to tite Palestinians, publicly and
privately, that the highest priority
has to be shutting down terrorism
and violence,” toe official said. “It
is just essential that everything has
to be done to shut down this
thin g.”
Bums said that in the adminis-
tration, “no tears are being shed”
over PA justice minister Freih Abu
Medein’s resignation yesterday,
and reiterated that the US had a
"major disagreement" with him
for encouraging the death penalty
against Palestinian land dealers.
“I think Israelis have a legiti-
mate right to. know that the PA is
not going to encourage political
assassination against people who
sell land to Israelis. We are
pleased that Chairman Arafat
came out very strongly [against it]
and we assume that will now be
the abiding position of toe PA, and
with die departure of the justice
minister perhaps the prospect is
more sure now,” Bums said.
Foreign Minister David Levy
said last night he would meet wito
Palestinian Authority Chairman
Yasser Arafat in Brussels today.
“We have things to talk about,
but there isn’t some sort of expec-
tation for the sake of which I’m
travelling all the way to Belgium,’’
be told Channel 2.
Arafat decided yesterday to attend
toe European Union foreign minis-
ters’ meeting in Brussels as an invit-
ed guest along wito Levy. Arafat's
trip was billed by Palestinian Radio
and TV as a gesture to the peace
process rather than an opportunity to
confer with the foreign minister.
The Levy-Arafat meeting is a
direct outcome of EU peace envoy
Miguel Moratinos's intensive
diplomatic efforts here, during
which he conferred with senior
Israeli and Palestinian officials and
urged them to resume the negotia-
tions aborted four months ago.
Treasury requests NIS 90m.
transfer to territories
Court awards Jewish children to Moslem father
BvBATSHEVA tsur
Four children whose Jewish
mother embraced Islam, married. a
Moslem, and then went back to
Judaism, have been returned to
their father's care to be raised as
Moslems.
Hie High Court of Justice yes-
terday overturned a Beersheba
rabbinical court ruling that toe
mother, who is now divorced,
could raise the children as Jews.
According to Jewish law, chil-
dren ate Jewish if their mother is
toe authority to make a decision
chi the matter ; since toe father had
not agreed that die case be decided
before a Jewish religious conn.
Tire couple had been married in
1980 in a Moslem ceremony after
the woman converted to Islam
together with her mother. The cou-
509007
STunder Moslem religious
fcwaMostem father is entitled to raised their children accordmg to
automatic custody of his children. Moslem tradition.
Aharon Barak, Eliabu But two years ago, toe mamage
w Il S CeS H A iSJ!wl Heshin said broke up and the woman decided
to return to her Jewish roots. She
took the children with her.
The father; meanwhile, appealed
to a Moslem religious court in
Jerusalem, asking that his children
be returned to him. At the same
time, the mother asked the rabbini-
cal court to rule that her children are
Jewish and should be raised as
such. Tbe rabbinical court ruled in
her favor. The father then turned to
the High Court of Justice, which
titled yesterday that toe children
should be brought up as Modems
and returned to their hither's custody.
By DAVP HARRIS
The Treasury yesterday asked
tire Knesset Finance Committee to
allow the transfer of NIS 90 mil-
lion from the Immigration and
Absorption Ministry to housing
programs in Judea and Samaria,
according to Israel Radio.
The suggestion that this money
would come at the expense of the
ministry’s budget was strongly
denied by the leader of tire coali-
tion group on (he committee,
Michael Kleiner (Gesher).
The proposal is likely to face
stiff opposition in toe Knesset
Tbe leader of the opposition fac-
tion rat the committee, Avrabam
Shohat (Labor), is demanding to
know the exact locations of tire
construction work of a reported
400 homes.
“This is a national scandal
because die money is being taken
from housing for immigrants, by
throwing Ethiopians out of their
caravans, and with young Israeli
couples striking because they have
nowhere to live and are awaiting a
solution," Shohat told journalists.
“This government shows no
responsibility towards the coun-
try’s citizens, nor towards the
peace process.”
Shohat is reportedly trying to
form a wide-based group that will
fight toe plan. Among his aims is
bringing members of Yisrael
Ba’aliya on board.
“This money is only being used
for mortgages for collective bod-
ies,” Kleiner said.
With an estimated NIS 1 billion
surplus in the mortgage pot,
Kleiner maintains this will have
no effect on toe ministry’s bud-
get.
“Those who are throwing these
accusations should look tack to
what happened just before the end
of tire tenure of toe last govern-
ment,” said Kleiner, who claimed
Labor was responsible for giving
toe kibbutz movements an NIS
13b. “present,” rather titan giving
toe money to toe poor or to devel-
opment towns.
No one was available for com-
ment at the Treasury last nigjftt
NEWS
in brief
Palestinians arrest senior police officer
Palestinian security officials yesterday arrested Deputy
Commander Jihad Masouni, head of a criminal detective unit in
Nablus, who is accused by Israelis of ordering that shots be fired
at a West Bank rabbi’s car. Governor Mahmoud Aioul said two
other officers are also under arrest, but he doubts the existence of
a ring in the Palestinian Police dedicated to wrecking the peace
process. “I think the Israeli authorities are exaggerating their
claim and this story," he said.
Israel arrested three Palestinian Police officers last week, saying
they were on their way to attack a settlement near Nablus, and a
fourth officer later on suspicion of planning attacks near
Tulkarm. Reuters
Four FA infiltrators caught
The IDF Spokesman said last night that Israeli troops captured
four Palestinian infiltrators on Sunday night. The spokesman
added that the Palestinians were attempting to enter Israel from
the Gaza Strip when troops on a routine patrol apprehended them.
The Palestinians are being questioned by the security services.
Margot Dudkevitch
Bill would evade intifada reparations
The Knesset is to debate a bill next week, presented by Justice
Minister Tzahi Hanegbi, which would define the intifada as a vio-
lent, organized struggle against Israeli citizens and military, thus
limiting the culpability of Israel's armed forces, the Justice
Ministry said yesterday. According to a 1952 law, the state is not
responsible for damages caused by belligerent activities of die IDF.
Since the outbreak of the intifada, more than 4,000 claims,
amounting to hundreds of millions of shekels, have been lodged
against the state. The proposed law would permit payment of
compensation on humanitarian grounds. Batsheva Tsur
Ne’eman promises not to cut IDF salaries
Finance Minister Ya’acov Ne'eman met with top IDF comman-
ders and defense officials yesterday to discuss a NTS 205 million
budget, cut, buit promised not to touch the salaries of the IDF’s
career personnel. The defense establishment countered with a
demand that its NIS 32 billion shekel budget be boosted by NIS
1J5 billion next year. The defense ministry received an additional
NIS 3 00 million allocation in January to prepare for the threat of
conflict with Syria.
Both sides agreed that further budget discussions would be held
at the director-general level and “would be to die point and in
good spirits." Arieh O'Sullivan
Arafat sends envoy to Saddam Hussein
Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat evidently is keep-
ing his lines open to Iraq and especially to its President Saddam
Hussein. His latest known overture to Die Baghdad regime was
made by PA Housing Minister Azem Ahmad, who delivered a
personal letter from Arafat to Hussein.
In meetings in Baghdad with the Iraqi foreign minister and vice
president, Ahmad promoted the PA's idea of an Arab summi t confer-
ence to discuss the stalemate in Palestinian-Israeti negotiations and
dissatisfaction with the US's role in the peace process. Jay Bushinsky .
Bridge contractors present report clearing them
Building contractors Baruch Karagula and Yehoshua.Ben-Ezn^‘ .
who constructed the bridge which collapsed at the Maccabiah’*- -
opening ceremony last Monday, yesterday presented the conimis-'
sion investigating the fatal accident with a report absolving diem
of blame. The report, prepared by the Bloch-Mendelson engineer-
ing firm, placed the blame squarely on engineer Micha Bar-Dan.
Meanwhile, Australian Maccabiah delegation head Louis Plains
denied that he had cast blame on anyone for the accident, saying
that he is waiting for the investigators to present its findings. Itim
With deep sorrow we announce the sudden passing of
our beloved mother and grandmother
ANNE (Hana) COOPER n
The funeral will take place on
Wednesday, July 23, 1 997, at 4:00 p.m.
at the entrance to Har Hamenuhot Gryat Shaul.
Shiva: at the house of the daughter Harriet
Kibbutz Sde Yoav, Tel. (07) 672-1274
The Executive and Worshippers of the
Jerusalem Great Synagogue
deeply mourn the sad passing of their Builder
Rabbi PHILIP H. WEINBERG
of Los Angeles
and extend their sincerest condolences
to Rose and the family.
With broken hearts we announce the passing of
our beloved husband, father, grandfather and brother
Rabbi PHILIP WEINBERG
of Los Angeles, California
Wife: Rose Weinberg
Daughter: Ellen and Fred Stepan and children
Son: Joshua and Charlotte Weinberg
Sister: Esther and Max Leader
Brother: Charles and Ruth Weinberg
Brother: Henry and Verla Weinberg
Internment at Har Hamenuhot on Tuesday,
one and a half hours after the arrival of TWA flight 884.
Expected arrival at 3:20 p.m.
For particulars, call 02-625-6284 or 02-561 -7756.
Tuesday, July 22, 1997 The Jerusalem Post
Palestinian sources: Jabali, Arafat
behind planned Har Bracha assault
A. . , ■ _ Imp]
By JAY BUSHDiSXY
Palestinian sources contended yesterday
that Brig.-Gen. Ghazi Jabali, commander of
the Palestinian Authority's police force,
recently urged his subordinates in Ramailah
and Gaza to escalate the level of violence
against Israeli civilians and soldiers by
using firearms against them.
The sources quoted Jabali as having said
his instructions originated from PA
Chairman Yasser Arafat.
Jabali has been implicated in last week’s
arrest by Israeli troops of three Palestinian
police officers on suspicion of being on a
terrorist mission against Israeli settlers at
Har Bracha northeast of Nablus.
At a weekend meeting between the PA's
top security figures, fibril Rajoub and
Mahmoud Dahlan, and Central Intelligence
Agency personnel, American officials urged
that Arafat dismiss Jabali immediately, the
sources said.
They said there was anger and resentment
among rank and file Palestinians over the
arrest of Nablus-based CoL Jihad Massinu-
Implying that Massimi was being used as a
scapegoat, Palestinian critics of PA policy
said be served under Jabali and took orders
from him.
For similar reasons, they also objected to
the arrest of Col. Munir Abushi, deputy
police commander for the Tulkarm district tried l for attoniey-generaL
action" against Israelis at a meeting with
police officers in Nablus, the sources said.
The sources also cited dissension in the
PA’s l eg al community because of Arafat’s
alleged appointment of unqualified candi-
dates for judicial posts. Justice Minister
Freih Abu Medein was particularly upset,
they said, because of Arafat’s reported fail-
ure to consult with him prior to selecting die
10 new judges.
This coincided with mild criticism of
Arafat’s choice of Gaza attorney Faiz Abu-
Rahraeh, a veteran jurist whose career dates
back to his defense of local Palestinians
Hie corruption issue was® cl ^“° y *5^
ctal committee appomte^y ^t w^h
PA’s director-general of presidential affairs,
the committee concluded foat stringent
reforms must be enacted and ^twnteoffi-
cials must be be put ontrnL Wjg* L
The inquiry was ordered by Ararat Jjw
month following an auctitor’stolosi^foat
PA administrative personnel had s ^^%_
dered $326 million m public funds m 1990-
Arrested PA policemen were to discuss
cooperation with Israel
BrAREHO’SUtUVAN
Two of die Palestinian Police offi-
cers suspected of planning attacks
against Israelis had been scheduled
to visit Israeli police in Judea and
Samaria last week to discuss coop-
eration between the two forces.
The Israel Police bad planned to
invite a total of 14 senior
Palestinian Police officers to their
headquarters in Abu Dis near
Jerusalem, mainly for a get-
acquainted meeting, but also to set
some common goals, said Judea
and Samaria police spokesman
Opher Sivan.
“The meeting was to have taken
place last week, but was canceled
due to the arrest of the three
Palestinian policemen" on their
way to cany out an attack on the
settlement of Har Bracha, Sivan
said. Army radio said two of the 14
Palestinians were COL Jihad
Massimi, a senior Nablus police
officer, and CoL Munir AbushL
Abushi saved in the Tulkarm
police, and was arrested by General
Security Service agents last week'
on suspicion of ordering attacks.
- Massimi has reportedly been
detained by die Palestinian Police
for questioning.
Army Radio said Inspector-
General Assaf Hefetz and other
senior police commanders bad
agreed to pay a reciprocal visit at
the invitation of Brig.-Gen. Ghazi
Jabali, commander of the West
Bank and cinvs police force, who
Israel is now accusing of master-
minding attacks against Israel.
Sivan said that despite recent
events, police from both rides are
still in daily contact, and efforts are
under way to set up a future meet-
ing.
Bethlehem
bomb
factory
‘biggest yet
found 9
Bv IIABflOT PtBXOnffTCH
Zvi Ben-Ari (Gregory Lemer), in striped shirt, surrounded by security men in court yesterday. (Pavel Mrlbeig, Israel Sun)
Lemer remanded again, may post bail
and move to house arrest
By mi»c mucus
Zvi Ben-Ari (Gregory Loner), foe alleged
Russian mafia kingpin suspected of foe mur-
der of a Russian banker, money laundering,
an $85 million fraud scam and other financial
offenses, appeared in Petah Tikva
Magistrate’s Court court for a further remand
hearing yesterday. Judge Yeshiyabu
Shcneller ruled that Lemer - already in cus-
tody for over two months - would stay in
custody for a further seven days after foe
National Crime Squad said there had been a
turning point in the investigation. After the
seven-day remand. Judge Schneller ordered
Lemer placed under house arrest - after first
depositing large sums of money.
Police are still trying to reach an agreement
with a witness who is expected to testify
against Lemer. Therefore Schneller, who has
already warned police that unless they pre-
sent an indictment Lemer would be
released, agreed to keep the latter in custody
for a further week in order to give police foe
time needed. After that, ruled Schneller,
Lemer will be placed under house arrest
Bail will be set at NIS 2 million cash togeth-
er with third-party collateral amounting to
NIS 5 million. Judge Schneller said he was
certain that Lemer would have no problem
raising the sums required.
Police opposed the decision to put Lemer
under house arrest in another seven days, and
said that in foe light of new developments
they may appeal the judge’s decision and
consolidate a partial indictment, thus
enabling detectives to request- a remand until
foe end of legal proceedings. Police arc
afraid that, if freed, Lemer will flee the
country, or interfere with witnesses and oth-
ers involved in the affair.
Another bone of contention yesterday was
foe location of Lemer’s house arrest Lemer
wishes to be placed under arrest at his
Ashkelon villa, together with his family. But
Judge Schneller said he believed die deten-
tion should be at a hotel in the center of the
country - at Lemer’s expense. In any case,
conditions of foe bouse arrest include foe
confiscation of Lemer’s passports and foe
disconnecting of his phones. He will only be
allowed to contact his wife, father, daughter
and lawyers.
Judge Schneller will decide this rooming
where Lemer will be kept, and police are
weighing up their appeal, in an attempt to
keep foe alleged mafia boss in custody.
Bethlehem Police Commander
Kamal Sheikh said yesterday that a
bomb factory discovered in foe vil-
lage of Bert Sahur near Be&lehem
on Sunday is foe hugest of its kind
yetfbund.
At a hastily convened press con-
ference, Sheikh told reporters: “W;
found over 30 kflos of TNT, hydro-
gen, chemical substances, timers and
watches," adding that “only experts
can prepare such explosives."
In addition, he said, some of foe'
bombs bad been packed inside plas-
tic boxes, and were already .attached •'
to timers aid detonators.
Palestinian police also found IDF
uniforms, wigs, beards, makeup and
other disguises, as well as cdDular
phones, skullcaps and prayer shawls.
Channel 1 reported last nigfat that .
foe General Security Service
informed foe Palestinians about foe
bomb factory’s existence a week ago.
According to Sheikh, the two-
storey house in Bet Sahur was being
used by the Hamas movement. : -
“We have prevented explosions.
We have prevented a massacre,” he
said. “The ones running foe factory
planned to destroy our agreement
with the Israelis."
Prime Minister * B ln y ami n
Netanyahu, while commending foe ; .
discovery, said that ‘‘after foe grave '
activities committed by Palestinian
Police - perhaps the most serious' .
violation to date of At Oslo
Agreement -such operations against . •
Hamas should be constant This will -.
impress us far more.'"
According to Sheikh, police had *
watched the building for three days
prior to the dawn raid. He added that
there was a link between the factory
and Hamas activist Issa Sboufca,
who died last week in Bethlehem .
when a bo mb exploded prematurely.
“We found the same substances
and electrical devices used in the
bomb that killed Shouka,” said
Sheikh, adding that foe owner of fo»
house is bring questioned, but has
not been arrested. “We asked ltim
who was renting foe house, “ stud
Sheikh. Sheikh dented reports that
several suspects had been arrested, -
saying that apart from the borne
owner, do one has been detained. ■
Reports in the madia yesterday
claimed foe owner of the home -
Mohammed Assaf, allegedly a
Hamas activist arid a member of
Shouka’s cel! - had been arrested
before the raid, and revealed the far-
tray’s whereabouts dining his inter-
rogatiraL Other reports claimed he
was arrested after the raid, and yet
others claimed that three :
Palestinians were arrested with him
Beit Jann residents prepare
to defy NBA workers
By DAVID RUDGE
Residents of Beit Jann manned
foe barricades yesterday to prevent
any represe n tatives of the Nature
Reserves Authority from entering
foe Druse village on the slopes of
Ml Mieron.
The move was described by inhab-
i tarns of foe Druse village as a pre-
cautionary measure designed to avert
a flare-up of violence and to protect
the NRA officials themselves.
Simultaneously, police increased
foeir presence in foe region, as well
as that of NRA wardens and fire-
men, in case of any disturbances.
The moves followed the Supreme
Court ruling on Sunday to close an
illegally constructed road leading
from Beit Jam to foe nearby Druse
village of Hurfeish.
The decision resulted in riots out-
as hundreds of Beit Jarm residents
battled with police in protest against
the ruling.
“Feelings are running very high
in the wake of the court’s decision,"
said Beit Jann local council chair-
man Yusef Kabaian.
“I ana doing everything in my
power to ensure calm and for that
reason I met with foe head of the
northern region police and request-
ed that there should be no provoca-
tion," Kabaian said.
“The protest measures being
taken by foe council are within foe
framework of the law. We have
declared an open-ended strike and
we have dosed all the access points
to foe village to all officials of the
Nature Reserves Authority.
“This was done in order to avoid
provocation and violence.
Preventing them from entering will
| side the court Dunauig oo Sunday neip aven me inreai or violence
With deep sorrow we announce the death of
JEAN ROSENBAUM
on July 21 , 1 997 in Cincinnati, Ohio
Beloved wife of Professor Milton Rosenbaum
The family in Israel and abroad
The Jewish Community of Wilkes-Barre, PA
mourns the passing of .
RABBI MEIR PERNIKOFF n
The coffin will arrive today, July 22, 1997
with flight #008, due at 17:20, for burial
directly at Har Hamenuhot, Jerusalem.
erupting and protect them, given tire
atmosphere in the village, over
which I have no control.”
Kabaian said the council would
submit plans to foe local building
and planning commission to
approve the route from Beit Jann to
Hurfeish.
He also called for a meeting with
Environment Minister Rafael Bitan.
Majid Kazamel, who built on foe
road to Hurfeish a monument to his
son who was killed in the helicopter
disaster in February, said foe route
itself had been in existence for hun-
dreds of years, before the State and
the establishment of tire Ml Meron
nature preserve.
He maintained that the route had
linked the ancient villages of Beit
Jann and Hurfeish with Druse cen-
ters in Lebanon. Throughout histo-
ry, he stressed, foe Druse had pre-
served the natural aspect of the
region.
The NRA said it was trying to
arrange a compromise before
implementation of foe Supreme
Ccwrt’s decision to close foe road at
the beginning of next month. -
The Society for the Protection of
Nature in Israel, which petitioned
against the road and the proposal to
allow Druse with land rights to cul-
tivate their land in the preserve,
praised the Supreme Court ruling.
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No food for
strike-bound
hospital patients
By JUDY SIEGEL
^Patients at 1 1 government hospi-
tals will be hit by a double punch
today. as no food will be prepared
in the kitchens and physicians hold
a 24-hour strike.
The sanctions follow what was to
have been a one-day wanting strike
by government hospital nurses,
.technicians, pharmacists, cleaners,
and administrative workers, which
will continue partially, even though
it was supposed to end at 8 this
morning. The sanctions are in
protest against government viola-
tions of their contracts.
Doctors’ union chief Dr. Elisha
Bartov said physicians would hold
workers' assemblies today to
protest against Treasury-mandated
cuts by hospital managements.
Bartov added that “occupancy rates
in the state hospitals have long ago
reached fee red line, and one can't
make cuts in the system without
harming patients.”
As a result of the cuts, staff cafe-
terias have been closed, the use of
security companies has been halt-
ed, and workers' payments such as
car allowances and holiday gifts to
staffers and pensioners have been
cancelled.
The union chiefs said that if the
budget problems continue, hospital
directors will even stop supplying
food to patients, distributing clean
laundry, and admitting new dialysis
and oncology patients.
As a protest against the shutdown
of staff cafeterias, patients will go
hungry unless their relatives or
friends bring them food. Asked
what patients who have no one to
look out for them would do, a
union spokesman said: “That's a
problem.”
The Health Ministry spokesman
said that efforts would be made to
provide food through caterers if the
unions do not prevent these meals
from getting to patients.
Tomorrow there will be various
disruptions: at Sheba, Assaf
Harofe, Bnai Zion, and Sieff hospi-
tals, operating rooms, medical
technologists and radiology insti-
tutes will function on a reduced
schedule. At Nahariya, Hillel
Yoffe, and Ichilov, the wards,
emergency rooms, and intensive
care units will work on a Sbabbat
schedule, along with administrative
workers, pharmacists, social work-
ers, laundries, and storerooms. At
Rambam, Wolfson, Poriya, and
Baiziiai hospitals, outpatient clin-
ics and physiotherapists will not
function, while labs, cleaning
staffs, and technical services will
operate on a Shabbat schedule.
Health Minister Yehoshua Matza
commented that, with all the under-
standing of the- staffers' grievances,
he is sorry they are carrying out a
struggle cm die backs of patients.
His spokesman said that Matza
“has and will do all he can to make
the health system healthy again.”
Kupat Holim Clalit announced
yesterday that its eight hospitals
will function normally during the
government hospital strike.
Bezeq staff threatens more sanctions
By JUDY SIEGEL
Bezeq staffers, protesting over
the sale of 1 X5% of the company’s
shares to MerrOJ Lynch without
their consent, are continuing their
strike today and have threatened to
intensify it. Their week-long sanc-
tions have shut down information
and repair services (except for
emergencies) and closed Bezeq
offices.
The Tel Aviv District Labor
Court last week refused manage-
ment’s request to issue restraining
orders against Bezeq workers.
• The union argues that pension
and compensation rights are jeop-
ardized by the sale, which leaves
only Y2JS% of the company’s
shares available beyond the 519b
state ownership remaining for the
time being.
Union head Shlomo Kfir has
demanded that the Merrill Lynch
deal be cancelled, or that the
money gained be used to compen-
sate Bezeq staffers, who will be
sent on early pension in an effi-
ciency program.
Kfir said other large unions are
expected to join the struggle,
because they regard the shares sale
as a violation of the rights of work-
ers in government companies.
At a meeting of the Knesset'
Labor and Social Affairs
Committee, chairman MK Maxim
Levy said he would meet with the
prime minister over the Bezeq cri-
sis. He called on the government to
guarantee Bezeq workers’ rights. •
Meanwhile, despite their ongo-
ing sanctions, Bezeq technicians
last night answered an emergency
call to repair the telephone system
at Ben-Gurion Airport, whose
main switchboard and civilian
lines had gone dead.
Mount on the move
Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert likes what he sees yesterday as he takes a long view of the city's new Har Homa neighborhood,
accompanied by Interior Minister El! Suissa. The mayor told the minister that infrastructure work is to be completed within
four or five months after which the Israel Lands Administration can begin marketing plots to contractors for the first 2*500
bousing units Approach roads and support walls have been built, site developer Yossi Shemtov told the visitors and after the
sewerage system is completed electrical lines will be installed. iBiyan McBume»
. i-'Aflfc
MKs discuss legislation
against sexual
exploitation of children
involved in prostitution are new
immigrants, said MK Naomi
Blumenthal (Likud), who heads the
absorption committee.
A special department should be set
up to deal with immigrant youth in
distress said MK Marina Solodkin
(Yisrael Ba’aliya).
The committees plan ro reconvene
in two months to see what progress
has been made.
At a separate meeting of the
Knesset Labor and Social Affairs
Committee yesterday. Labor and
Social Affairs Minister Eli Yishai
presented a plan to deal with the
problem of 330,000 children at risk
and some 200,000 battered women.
A dramatic multimedia show on the
scope of the problem was shown.
Yishai said that it would cost some
N1S 500 million annually for the
next three years to deal with tire
problem via a plan drawn up by min-
istry director-general Yigael Ben-
Shalom.
“We’re talking about a social rime
bomb which needs governmental
initiative to defuse in time," Yishai
said. “Against rite background of tire
growing problems of the local
authorities and the lack of thousands
of places in day-care clubs and facil-
ities, there is no choice but to allo-
cate the necessary funding immedi-
ately.”
According to the figures presented
yesterday, 17 women were murdered
by their partners in 1996, a total of
95 women since 1990; estimates are
that one in seven women is banned,
although only 18,000 complaints
were filed with the police last year,
and of the 120,000 children at imme-
diate risk only a fifth are getting
(partial) treatment In 1995, 23.2%
of all children in ihe country lived
under the poverty line.
A pilot program in seven cities is
waiting for approval from the Prime
Minister's Office to go into effect to
complement the plan drawn up in
that office to combat domestic vio-
lence.
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and UAT COLLINS
Four Knesset committees con-
vened yesterday in joint session to
hear the findings of a report on com-
mercial sexual exploitation of chil-
dren.
Deputy attorney-general Yehudit
Karp Ktid the Knesset's committees
on labor and social affairs, educa-
tion, aliya and absorption, and the
status of women that the government
has drafted new legislation to deal
with tile growing phenomenon.
; Children as young as 12 years old
recently have fallen victim to com-
mercial sexual exploitation in Israel,
she said.
‘TTiisis no longer a marginal phe-
nomenon and has to be dealt with,”
she said.
The proposed legislation would
expand existing laws on prostitution
to cover minors and would deal
more stringently with pornography
involving minors.
According to the repeat, more
urgent steps have to be taken to reach
out to minors in distress. It notes that
it. is the right of children, under the
international charter on child rights,
to be protected by society.
“Young girls and boys do not
engage in prostitution. They are
expiated and abused by adults,"
said Mike Naftali of ELEM. the
association for youth in distress, one
of the coauthors of the report
Labor and Social Affairs
Committee chairman MK Maxim
Levy (Likud-Gesher; decried the
lack of government funds and said a
steering committee would be set up
to examine the problem more close-
ly. .
The Education Ministry has man-
aged to reduce the number of school
dropouts by 50 percent, to 30,000,
and this will help to reduce the num-
ber of youth in distress, said
Education Committee head
Emanuel Zissmann (Third Way).
More than 1.600 of the voutfa
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Tuesday, July 22. 1997 TheJerusaler^
NEWS
in brief
Lod squatters evicted
The 10 families that look: over apartmen is in a Lod absorp-
tion center on Sunday were evicted yesterday afternoon by
police, in cooperation with Jewish Agency security staff.
Some of the squatters fought with police outside the center,
but no injuries were reported. The squatters had taken over
the fiats, intended for immigrants due to arrive yesterday, by
threatening that “blood would be spilled" if the absorption
center’s manager did not give them the keys.
Aryeh Dean Cohen
Parents of Arad victims sue for compensation
The parents of two girls killed at the Arad Festival two years
ago filed a compensation suit yesterday in Tel Aviv District Court
against those involved in staging the festival. Arguing the orga-
nizers were criminally negligent, the parents of Na’ama Al-Kanv
and Chen Yitzhak demanded NIS 500,000 plus $5,000 in com-
pensation from Arad Mayor Bezalel Tabib, the Arad Municipality,
the festival foundation, festival producers Yoseph and Ro’i
Schwartz, the head of the company that sold tickets for the festi-
val, and the Israel Police. ftim
IWo held for Panless Katz murder
Early yesterday morning, police detained six people suspected
of being involved in the murder of Moshe Agtni on Sunday.
Police later released fourof them.
Agmi, 22, of Pardess Katz, was gunned down near his home on
Sunday evening.
Israeli dies In Indian bus crash
A still -unidentified Israeli man died in a traffic accident in
northern India yesterday afternoon. Indian police have informed
the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi that the Israeli had been travel-
ling in a bus which overturned. Him
Academics gather in Jerusalem
Scholars, writers, artists, and performers from around the world
will converge on Ml Scopus next week when the 12th World
Congress of Jewish Studies convenes at Hebrew University.
Beginning July 29th, the congress will sponsor 1,200 lectures and
events during its six-day span.
At a press conference yesterday, the organizers announced that
this congress will focus on five general topics: the Bible; Jewish
history, Jewish thought; the arts; and contemporary Jewish soci-
ety. Additional lecture series will be presented on modem
Yiddish, Russian, Arab, and Latin-American Jewish cultures.
Jonathan Tepperman
El Al gives miles to terminally ill children
El Al passengers have donated thousands of frequent-flyer
miles to the Make a Wish Foundation, which tries to make it
possible for terminally ill children to fulfill their dreams, fol-
lowing ariagreement between the Frequent Flyers’ Club and ■
the foundation.
In addition, El Al announced that for every 400 miles donat-
ed by passengers, the company itself would donate an addi-
tional 100 miles.
So far, said El Al spokesman Nachman Kleinian, enough
miles have been given to take a family of four to the US.
Kidman said the most-often expressed dreams are to meet a
famous person, and after that, to visit Disney World.
Haim Shapiro
Wadi Kelt murder suspect
stays behind bars
By AfttEH O’SULLIVAN
Military prosecutors said yester-
day that Ahmad Ali Ka'abneb, the
27-year-old Beduin suspected of
murdering two Israeli women last
April while they were hiking in
Wadi Kelt, stabbed them 75 times
and then tossed them off a cliff.
The Beit El Military Court yes-
terday extended Ka’abneh ’s
remand until the end of his trial.
Judge Maj. Arieh Noach also
rejected an appeal by Ka’abneh ’s
defense lawyer to bar journalists
from the trial.
At the remand hearing,
Prosecutor CapL Eli Braun
described how Ka'abneh, a mem-
ber of the A-Ram tribe, told his
interrogators that on April 24 he
murdered Hagit Zavitzky and Liat
Kastiel, both 23 years old.
Ka’abneh told General Security
Service interrogators that he saw
die women swimming in the pools
of Wadi Kelt while he was grazing
his flock of sheep, and kilted them
because he “hated Jews.” He was
arrested two days later
Ka’abneh had no criminal record,
is not suspected of belonging to
any political movement, and is
believed to have acted alone.
Braun said Ka’abneh waited for
the women to start ascending the
wadi cowaid Kfar Adurmra, where
Zavitzky lived, and then jumped
them. He demanded they hand over
a teg containing what he thought
was an Uzi submachine gun. When
they refused, Braun said, Ka abneh
attacked them wife his primitive
shepherd’s dagger. .
Ka’abneh later allegedly hid feeir
clothes, camera and a watch in a
cave and returned to his encamp-
ment at nightfall He told his moth-
er and brother of his deeds, and
they helped him destroy evidence
of fee murder, Braun said.
Ka’abnefa’s mother was convict-
ed of destroying ev.denee, ^
serving a three-month sentence.
His brother is still m cusroty
Yesterday was the first M* .“Jr 1
Ka’abneh was able to meet “J
defense lawyer, who demand
feat the media be barred from i fee
courtroom, claiming feat
tag details of the- killings could be
detrimental to his client S «*•
Braun said he will ask the court
to hand down two consecutive life
sentences.
Presidential advice for toe Histadrut
President Ezer Weizman (left) yesterday suggests to Histadrut chairman MK Amir Peretz ways to work toward towering the
number of foreign workers and replacing them with Israelis and Palestinians, during a meeting at Beit HanassL
Ban holds up
Jerusalem
funeral
Bv HAM SHAPIRO
TV show may have led
to siblings’ reunion
By JUDY SIEGEL
CORRECTION
A mistake occured in the advert for the
Maccabiah that appeared in yesterday’s
paper of July 21, 1997.
The March of the Delegations will take place
on
Thursday, July 24, 1997
and not as published. ** WB *^.
We apologize for any | %
inconvenience. \
Complicated DNA rests on saliva
samples from two people living in
fee North have shown very high
probability that they are siblings
who were parted as toddlers some 55
years ago ata train station in Poland.
Shula Yardeni and Pessah Getfarb,
who live less than an hour’s drive
from each other in the North, will
appear on Channel 1 at 8:55 tonight,
along wife the Hebrew University
geneticist who conducted fee tests.
Yardeni, who is now a grandmoth-
er living in Kanmel appeared an
Meni Pe’er’s television program on
Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes 1
Remembrance Day.
“She said die didn't know any-
thing about herself - not her real
name or her parents' [names] -
except feat someone told her she was
two years old when her mother
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brought her to a train station and sent
her off to Palestine," TV researcher
Sapir Peretz said.
Geifaib, a grandfather who lives at
Kibbutz Messilot near Beit She’an,
was watching the program and was
struck by the likeness between
Yardeni and bis daughters.
“He said he remembered, at die
age of three-and-a-half, being taken
by his mother with his younger sister
to a train station and returning home
without fee child."
They appeared together on Pe’er’s
next show, and program staffers con-
tacted Dr. Hasan Khatib, a Hebrew
UniveisiJy geneticist who specializes
in examinations of genetic markers
on chromosomes, to see if Geifaib ’s
intuitive feeling was authentic.
Khatib in vital the two to his lab,
where he took saliva samples and
did complex searches for genetic
markers.
“When I saw fee results.' 1 shook
all over,’’ he recalled. “It was such a
human stray. Their parents' names
aren’t even marked in their identity
cards and they don’t know exactly
how o Id they are.”
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doubts concerning the Jewish lin-
eage of the deceased have become
almost commonplace. Last week,
a less common situation arose: a
Jerusalem burial society refused to
bury fee body of a haredi man
because a rabbinical court had
excommunicated him.
The episode began four years
ago. when the son of the deceased,
involved in bitter divorce proceed-
ings, disappeared. His family
claimed the rabbinical court had
imposed intolerable support pay-
ments on him, -and insisted it di<l
not know his whereabouts.
Last year, the family was
astounded to see that the
Jerusalem Rabbinical Court, com-
prised of dayanim Ezra Basn,
Shlomo Fisher, and Neheraia
Goldberg, had imposed a kerem
(ban) on the family. Posters in
their Tel Aviv neighborhood
advised all pious Jews to have no
contact with family members, not
to accept them as part of a rainyan,
or to call them up to the Torah.
The members of die family, who
insisted that they were being
unfairly harassed by the rabbinical
court, largely ignored the ban. One
family member had already taken
the step - almost unheard of for a
haredi person - of obtaining an
injunction from the High Court of
Justice, forbidding fee rabbinical
court from summoning him with-
out prior notice, and then having
him arrested when he failed to
appear.
"My husband is a hassid, with a
beard and payes, but he’s so
thankful that it’s a democracy,”
said one relative who decided to
make the matter public^
Last week, she said, the head of
the family died, hi keeping with
haredi custom, the family wanted
to bury him as soon as possible,
but when they arrived at the
Jerusalem Municipal Funeral
Parlor, the wife of fee missing son
showed up wife a note from the
rabbinical court forbidding the
society from washing the body or
burying it
The family was aghast For four
hours the body remained
unburied, until one of the sons
obtained a letter from a prominent
Jerusalem rabbi, now an arbitrator
in the divorce proceedings. The
burial society agreed to bury fee
body, but fee pain remained.
“My father-in-law was a great
tzaddik, every penny he had he
gave to widows and orphans. To
leave his soul hanging in air for
four hours is tragic," said a family
member.
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fee rabbinical courts, said he was
proud of the rabbinical court’s rul-
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that fee High Court had, six
months ago, forbidden rabbinical
courts from imposing a kerem in
civil cases, but not in divorce
cases. According to Ben-Dahan,
the rabbinical court had only
allowed fee burial after the family
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WORLD NEWS
Central Europe floods spread
to German-Polish border
BERLIN (Reuters.) - Emergency
workers yesterday fought to repair
dikes to prevent the River Oder,
along Germany's border with
Poland, from flooding thousands
of homes.
Matthias Platzeck, environment
minister in the eastern German
stale rof Brandenburg, said plans
were' being made for possible
evacuation of the region. The
floods sweeping central Europe
have claimed scores of lives in
Poland and the Czech Republic.
Sinking on Berlin radio,
Platzeck said around 350 leaks
had tb. be monitored in dikes
where water levels have reached
record highs.
Chancellor Helmut Kohl, due in
the region to open a new steel
rolling mill in the town of
Eisenhaettenstadt, was to visit the
town of Frankfurt on the Oder this
afternoon to see the flood situation
for himself.
- About 20,000 people live in
Germany’s Oderbruch area on the
Polish border - a low-lying area
drat would face flooding if the
river broke its banks. But offi-
cials also fear flooding in other
areas.
Thousands of rescue workers,
fire fighters, border guards and
soldiers are ready for action if die
dikes break when another wave of
water surges down the Oder
tomorrow, bringing debris from
the floods in Poland. In some
places the river already has
swollen to nearly three meters
above normal.
Brandenburg interior minister
Alwin Ziel said he expected water
levels to remain high in the region
for at least two weeks.
*The important question is
whether the dikes can hold ... i
have grave concerns about this,
and that’s why we have to take this
so seriously,” said Ziel, also
speakingon the radio.
The nearby state of Lower
Saxony said it was making an
extra 800,000 sandbags available
to Brandenburg to support the
banks of the Oder.
Meanwhile, German reinsurance
giant Munich Re estimated flood
damage in Poland and the Czech
Republic at DM13 billion.
"Reports from the region indi-
Civil War
horse remains
laid to rest
LEXINGTON, Virginia - Along
with handfuls of dirt from the Civil
War battlefields where he served,
the cremated skeletal remains of
Gen. Stonewall Jackson’s unflap-
pable war horse were buried in the
Virginia Military Institute Parade
Ground on Sunday. Ill years after
die steed’s death.
The bones of Little Sorrel had
been languishing unheralded in a
storeroom at the VMI Museum
when, earlier this year; the Virginia
Division of the United Daughters
of the Confederacy and VMI decid-
ed to inter the remains with full
honors - just as Traveler, Gen.
Robert E. Lee’s horse, was ceremo-
niously buried a few hundred yards
away cm the campus of Washington
and Lee University in 1971.
And so, in matters grave,
Lexington no longer can be called
a one-horse town.
Washington Post
Residents load valuables from their workshop onto a small boat yesterday in Eisenhuettenstadt, Germany, which is protected by a
sandbag barricade from the rising flood waters of the Oder River. (Reutov
cate insured losses of DM1 2 bil-
lion in the Czech Republic and
DM 300 million in Poland,” a
company spokesman said.
Tt is bard to get accurate figures
because the privatized insurance
industry is still relatively young in
these areas, and the repenting sys-
tems are not well developed.” the
spokesman said.
He was not yet able to give fig-
ures for Slovakia, which also has
been hit by the floods. He put eco-
nomic losses in Austria at DM
300m., but was unable to. say how
much of that was insured.
The floods also have hit eastern
parts of Germany, where most
householders are covered for flood
damage in standard household
policies, although contracts signed
since 1990 do not offer flood
cover as standard.
Munich RE is expected to face
claims of between DM 20m. and
DM 60m., he said.
A London-based loss adjuster
said commercial firms in Poland
could face heavy losses.
Robert Donnelly, a loss adjuster
with Crawford THG who is in
Warsaw to estimate damage loss-
es. said: “We are aware of multi-
million dollar losses for individual
plants.”
Several multinational compa-
nies have plants in the worst-hit
areas of Poland, including the
cities of Opole and Wroclaw.
“Both towns have had water lev-
els two meters higher than normal.
There is a lack of food and water,
no electricity and poor telephone
lines," Donnelly said.
Last week, Poland's Hestia
Insurance said it would make what
may be the largest payment in its
history to flood-hit electrode
maker ZEW which was insured
for 230m. zlotys.
The death toll in Poland has
risen to 50 during two weeks of
rain which has caused some of the
worst floods this century. The
death toll in the Czech Republic
has gone above 40.
Czech insurer Ceska Pojistovna
said it expects the flooding to
cost it around 5 b. crowns in
claims.
erage.
FBI: Serial killer Cunanan
may be bent on revenge
By TOM BATTLES
MIAMI BEACH, Florida (AP) - As authori-
ties followed hundreds of dps on the where-
abouts of suspected serial killer Andrew
Cunanan, the FBI has reportedly begun warn-
ing his acquaintances they may be his next tar-
gets.
Cunanan. a suspect in the slayings of fashion
designer Gianni Versace and four other men
across the United States, may be working his
way down a hit list of wealthy homosexuals
and ait patrons who he believes have crossed
him, FBI spokeswoman Coleen Rowley said
in Monday’s USA Today.
The FBI is reviewing interviews with people
who knew Cunanan. “We want to see if he
talked about other people,” Rowley said. “If
we come across names, we would be remiss if
we didn't convey that information to them.”
Authorities have said they believe Cunanan,
who could be posing as a woman, is sdfl in
south Florida. The manhunt, however, is
national.
More details have emerged about Cunanan’s
actions in the days before Versace's slaying on
the steps of his South Beach villa last Tuesday.
A Brazilian woman told authorities she has
photos and video showing Cunanan and
Versace together at the mansion during an
informal July 13 gathering.
A friend of Cunanan’s told the FBI that
Cunanan had a crush on a member of Versace’s
entourage. Time magazine repotted.
Authorities have tried to determine whether
Cunanan and Versace knew each other. A day
before the July 15 slaying, security cameras at
the News Cafe recorded Cunanan about 30
minutes before VeTsace made his usual appear-
ance to buy magazines, Newsweek reported.
The cafe is within walking distance of
Versace's home.
Before all of this, Cunanan had left a brazen
trail across Miami Beach.
Two weeks ago, Cunanan walked into a
pawnshop, used his real name and left a
thumbprint as he pawned a gold coin from Lee
Miglin, a Chicago developer Cunanan is
accused of lolling in May. He also left a record
of the hotel and room number where he stayed
until the day before Versace’s slaying.
The pawn shop is within sight of the
Normandy Plaza Hotel, where employees said
Cunanan stayed for two months before
Versace’s murder. Manager Roger Falin said
Cunanan used an alias, flashed a French pass-
port and went from paying daily to weekly to
monthly.
Even before Versace's slaying, the FBI was
receiving reports of Cunanan sightings from
all comers of the country - boarding airplanes,
at a laundry in Oklahoma City, in the audience
at the Geraldo Rivera show.
On Saturday, Miami Beach police said
Cunanan may be attempting to elude authori-
ties by shaving bis body and dressing as a
woman. ^
Besides being the prime suspect in Versace's
death, Cunanan is wanted for the slayings of
Miglin, a cemetery caretaker in New Jersey
and two men in Minnesota - an ex-lover and a
former friend.
Column One
Cambodia
falls again
By Thomas O’Dwyer
Any historian of Rome could
have warned the Cambodians
about the folly of allowing two
powerful rivals to run a country
jointly. The trappings of state,
even in a decrepit state like
Cambodia, provide ample facili-
ties for each “joint ruler” to carve
out a personal power base, reward
cronies, appoint lieutenants and
muster supporters - until one gets
strong enough to oust the other.
Welcome to Cambodia, immor-
talized in The Killing Fields - a
tradition that sinister coup leader
Hun Sen seems keen to honor.
Several million Cambodians have
died since 1970 in endless war -
including Pol Pot’s reign of terror
and extermination. Cambodia’s
infrastructure is shattered.
Ousted is Prince Norodom
Ranariddh, who has served uneasi-
Over the following 10 days, they
were beaten with rods and barbed
wire, and made to drink raw
sewage. They were interrogated
by means of metal clamp “lie
detectors" on their fingers.
Pol Pot is gone, long live Hun
Sen.
The rest of the world has two
options in selecting an attitude to
these new pol iticaf crimes - “who
cares" or “enough is enough.”
Any guesses?
For the moment, the United
States, Australia, Germany and
Japan have cut off aid to the
wretched country. As usual, this
crude if necessary instrument tends
to carve up the already impover-
ished and dispossessed, rather than
the corrupt coup-cats at the top.
ly as co-prime minister with Hun
Sen: ‘
investigations continue on the
extent of insurance coverage, but
it is expected that multi-nationals
will have Western European -style
covers which include aspects such
as business interruption as well as
materials.
Many will be covered by
Western European insurers and
policies with Polish companies are
likely to be reinsured in Western
Europe or the London market.
Donnelly said most Polish
insurers ate large and capable
organizations, but Simon Aubrey-
Jones, an eastern Europe special-
ist at broker Willis Corroon, said
it is possible some insurers could
have insufficient reinsurance cov-
i since 1993. That was when the
United Nations proclaimed it was
bringing “democracy at last" to the
weary Cambodians.
After the roost massive and
expensive peacekeeping operation
in history, the UN supervised the
1993 elections, which ushered in
the shared premiership, and then
left the Cambodians to make a
mess of it all.
To do one's surprise, they have
obliged. After all, when the United
Nations declares something it has
done to be a resounding success,
it’s time to look for cover.
Ironically, Hun Sen’s move
against his rival, was sparked by
reports of the breakup of the noto-
rious Khmer Rouge in the northern
jungles, and the capture by one fac-
tion of the aging vampire Pol PoL
Amid fears that defecting Khmer
Rouge guerrillas were being
brought into the capital, Hun Sen
on July 5 moved swiftly against
Ranariddh's troops and routed
them. Ranariddh and most leaders
of his royalist party are in exile.
In fine Cambodian tradition, Hun
Sen has been getting on with tortur-
ing and executing his opponents. At.
least 35 are reported to have been
killed, and hundreds are imprisoned
- including a group of around 400
in the central province of Kandal.
Hun Sen sanctions the abuse of
his prisoners. He said on Friday.
“Measures musr be severely
applied on those who intimidate
others.” His minions didn't require
a high IQ to translate and apply
this Orwellian gobbledygook.
For example, 30 soldiers cap-
oned on July 8 by Regiment 911,
an elite unit trained by Indonesia
(surprise surprise!), were taken to
Karabol, a military base west of
Phnom Penh. Blindfolded and
with hands tied behind their
backs, they were herded into a
small cell with no light or ventila-
tion and forced to sleep upright
If Hun Sen
wants to abol-
ish democracy,
let democrats
everywhere
abandon him.
Better news is that hundreds of for-
eigners - including businessmen -
have fled, and tourists have again
crossed Cambodia off their “must
see” lists.
If Hun Sen wants to abolish
democracy, let democrats every-
where abandon him.
Hun Sen’s next attempt to legit-
imize his coup is likely to come on
Monday, when the 120-member
National Assembly will be asked
to rubber stamp his choice of a
replacement for Ranariddh as co-
premier. At least half the royalist
members of parliament have fled.
No one has asked the rest of the
party to approve Hun Sen's nomi-
nee, Foreign Minister Ung HuoL
Hun Sen is trying to reassure the
world by promising to replace
Ranariddh and to honor the consti-
tution. The world, of course has
never heard that one before.
It is up to parliament now either
to fight for democracy, or to go
down fighting in order to expose
Hun Sen’s hypocrisy. If parlia-
ment even meets, it's getting off
from a slippery starling block -
this meeting already" is three
months overdue.
For the moment, the Association
of South East Asian Nations has
suspended the imminent admis-
sion of Cambodia. It’s a welcome
pause for thought, but no one
should hold their breath while
waiting for ASEAN to champion
democracy.
Just ask the Burmese.
French TV mix-up sends
porn film to Arab world
PARIS (Reuters) - A switching error caused a French channel to
broadcast a hard-core pornographic film around the Arab world instead
of a children’s program, France’s overseas television authority said yes-
terday. __
The state-funded Canal France International apologized for the mis-
take, which resulted in all its programs being yanked off the air by the
Arabsat satellite consortium after the broadcast at prime time on
Saturday afternoon.
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ARTS&ENTERTA1NMENT
TuKdw. July 22. 1897
THEATER REVIEW
FESTIVAL ROUNDUP
A play
on worlds
By NAOMI DOUPAI
H illei Mittelpunkt competes
only with Hanoch Levin as
one of today’s most prolific
as well as pessimistic Hebrew play-
wright-directors.
His 26th play to date Can Eden
Darom{"South of Paradise"), now
premiering at Beit Lessin, Tel Aviv,
surpasses anything he has previ-
ously done.
His usual steamy, squalid slum
milieus throbbing with the agonies,
ecstasies, pathos and prides of
damaged lives and derelict loves is
here compounded with a present-
day Ethiop i an- Romani an- Russian -
Sephardi-Ashkenazi mix that siz-
zles with cross-cultural frictions
and friendships.
SOUTH OF PARADISE
By HiOd MJttdpunkt
A study of a stagnant southern
town portrayed through the goings-
on of the said Cafe Gan Eden and
its habituds is developed in a novel,
almost surreal structure of quick-
change vignettes,' monologues, con-
fessionals and other arresting dra-
matic devices. The play maintains
its hold over the audience undl the
very end, which suffers somewhat
from a lame denouement This is
about the only criticism that can be
leveled at an otherwise deeply pen-
etrating, realistic piece.
The quirks of a difficult dramatic
concept crossed with so many
rocky relationships are competent-
ly and deftly handled in
Mittelpunkt's direction. His text
injects a nonstop infusion of local
lingo and pithy street humor into
the ongoing tenor of brutality and
violence.
But above all, this production
deserves to be seen for its eight out-
standing performances. To assem-
ble in one cast leading artists of die
caliber of Aharon Almog (consum-
mate as Dolphy. the darkly tragic,
rueful Romanian), Gedalia Besser
(his Odessa, the pedantic Russian,
is yet another example of bis ele-
gant and exquisite acting), and
Mati Seri (who, as Ruby, a small-
time Pop-pusher, gives one of his
most dynamic, deeply-felt charac-
ter roles to date) is In itself a colos-
sal feat
The best and most unexpected
performance comes from the hith-
erto unknown young newcomer
Udi GO, a “natural” in the role of
Asher, the desperate, delinquent
son. He invests a demanding part
with a fine balance of poignancy
and crude passion.
Ada Lev’s Viva, his tempestuous,
temperamental Mum, is delightful
if deeply disturbing. Asi Levy’s
tough single- mother taxi-driver
Jackie, is another spunky, refresh-
ing study. Sharona, a demented
disco-dancer (alas, in the text the
role loses its vibrancy towards die
end), is realized by Daphna
Rechter with tire right degree of
frantic flamboyance and eye-catch-
ing allure. The Ethiopian waitress,
a gentle, hovering presence
throughout, is played by Tammy
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The relationship between David (Brian Austin Green, above) and Donna is about to change.
‘90210’ trauma
DANIEL J.CHALFEN
T onight’s episode of Beverly
HiUs 90210 (8:55, Channel
3) was cited by many US TV
critics as the “episode that will
change American dunking” when
it was aired there almost two
months ago. In this, the last
episode in the current - and most
recent - series, innocent, angelic
Donna Martin (played by Tori
Spelling, daughter of producer
Aaron Spelling) loses her virginity
to long-term, Jewish boyfriend
David Silver (Brian Austin Green).
It is the end of their college
years, they are set to graduate, and
Donna has decided that she is
ready to take her relationship with
David that one step further. She
has seen her roommate Kelly’s
recent unwanted pregnancy and
then miscarriage, she has been
jealous of the after-dark hours
other couples spend with each
other, she has brushed with
Valerie’s promiscuity and Steve
and Clare's intensely tactile rela-
tionship, and has new decided she
is ready to lose her virginity.
But over the years, through
which Donna has turned down
many sexual propositions on
grounds of morality and Christian
ethic, she has developed a follow-
ing of fens, many of whom took
vows of celibacy outside of mar-
riage as a consequence. This con-
cluding episode therefore came as a
slap in the face for the anti-sex-
before-marriage movement which
has been snapping up teenagers in
schools and colleges across the US
in recent years. Psychologists
reported a considerable amount of
patients, teenagers and some in
their early 20s, who were trauma-
tized by the episode.
They had created for them-
selves a hero, based their lifestyles
on her, only to have their illusions
shattered,” said a New York- bom
Israeli psychologist, “but it should
not happen here, where Beverly
HiUs itself has had less social
impact and where value systems
are less determined by TV heroes
than in the US.”
With the conclusion of this
series, debate about whether we
will ever again see (he Beverly
Hills cast in these roles is rife.
There is speculation that an eighth
series, Beverly HiUs , the Married
Years, is being planned. Jason
Priestly, Brandon Walsh in the
series, who is now one of the pro-
ducers as well as an actor, is very
keen to return. He has, however,
stated that be would only do so if
he is billed as executive producer.
Jennie Garth, Kelly Taylor in the
series, has made it clear, however,
that despite her current $20,000 an
episode payroll, she feels her
Beverly Hills days are over and it
is time to move on.
Arad’s
‘spiritual’ side
ByAHYKlEM
■vk -Tever has die maxim “You
[VI get out of something only
| v what you put into if* been
more true than at last week's
three-day Arad music festival,
. where audience reactions
matched the energy of the per-
formers. _
Take Mam Gasp’s understated
j/.— —— — - — — trw .
by a crowd that had more gray
hair than not, Caspi didn't yell,
dance, or cajole die crowd.
Typical, deadpan Caspi: aside
from a terse explanation for his
four-year furlough fT had some
thing s I needed to do. I'm glad to
be back”) and a few sardonic
comments, he sat still and played.
A standing ovation marked his
entrance and exit, but for die
most part much of the crowd was
talking without bothering to
whisper, walking around, at
times singing along; bored and
restless - especially during the
new songs.
His voice as mellifluous as
ever, Caspi sang bis own songs
as well as ones be wrote for other
singers like Yehudit Ravitz and
RDriGaL
Tb see how areal star treats her
audience, Rita’s gig was the
place to be. With a regal stage
presence, die sexy, beautiful
soprano danced, laughed and
sang, bestowing upon (be crowd
of 1,400 a true show. Her
changss of costume (a black, sul-
try number; a fun ruby flounce
and a classy, cream-colored
befly-baring gown) was nothing
less than one would expect from
her. Her husband Rami
KJeinstein is more like ihe Jijy
next eta "Good mommg! he
b^^en though i^ueem
the morning on dte concert stage
set up below Masada^Why^re
you all standing so away?”
He looks to the guards, “Is there
any reason they can’t move up.
They’ll be good, I promise.
hi his firsr performance of
eight months, Weinstein, at the
piano under the srany sky, mrate
you feel like you were m lus liv-
ing room. Geveriy, he intro-
duced the songs from his new
album in between his older hits
such as "Apples and Dates” and ■
“Forever Young.” _
Someone who made full use of
the dramatic Masada setting was'
David Broza, wbo also per-T
formed at three in the morning..
During his all-Hebrew perfor-
mance, different pans of the
mountain top were lit up in white
ex- red, flame-tike lighting. Broza
spared us his usual 20-minute
riffs and making love to his gui-
tar For three hours he treated die
audience to one of his best per-
formances, perhaps because he
invited performers such as Ronit
Shahar to share the stage.
“Masada is very spiritual. I’ve
performed afl over the world,
and no cne— can build a stage
like this," Broza told The
Jerusalem Post.
For teens the highlight of *e
festival was (he thunderous nighr
of hard itxHt, featuring Ice 9, The
Jews, Roquefort, Barry Saharov
and an electric Ayfv Gefen. It
was a freaks' field day: tongue
rings, mohawks (“Statue of
Liberty haircuts”), belly-neck-.,
laces, tattoos, chains, etc.
A taste for the shtetl
By GREER FAY CASHMAN
T he growing worid-wide
popularity of klezmer
music was evidenced by
fee thousands of people who
flocked to Safed last week for
the 10th annual Klezmer
Festival."
The crowds moving through
Safed ’s winding alleys were fre-
quently headed in fee direction
of fee more authentic sounds,
though many stopped to listen to
Nunu, fee six-member jazz
klezmer band from Munich
whose musicians are not Jewish
but sing in Lithuanian-accented
Yiddish.
Band leader and bass player
Uwe Schwidewski doesn't see
anything unusual about a
German group adopting
klezmer music. “Musical emo-
tions are not exclusive,” he says.
“Music belongs to everyone -
but we have our own particular
interpretation.” What was most
heartening to Nunu was the' pos-
itive feedback from Orthodox
audiences in Safed. Nunu has.
played before similar audiences
in Europe, but the band mem-
bers weren’t quite sure of fee
reception they, would receive in
Israel. As it turned oat, they
were a real hit ' ' V ”V-'.;.' '
Avi Piantenta, fee ja^ mqsi-
cian and composer who is not* a.
Habad hassid, played several
gigs, but the busiest performer
was storyteller Sbaul Mayzlish,
who moved from stage to stajge
wife a cornucopia of mostly,
hassidic parables. i
He was at his best at the rise -
a totally atmospheric kebnibhe
reception on fee patio of Hahad
House, where male guests rise
from tables piled wife herring,
cakes, cookies, soft drinks and
vodka to dance wife wild aban-
don almost to a stale of ecstasy as
fee rhythm of fee music quick-
ened and spectators joined in . by
stamping their feet and clapping.
Iff TUHE
The muse from the mummy’s tomb
By DAVID BWHM
K arl Wallinger under the
moniker World Party is
responsible for one of the
best albums of the 1990s, as any
of fee few dozens of people who
own it can attest.
EGYPTOLOGY
World Party
(NMC)
LISA STANFIELD
Lisa Stanfield
(Hed Artzi)
FURTHER
Geneva
(NMC)
Goodbye Jumbo was chock frill
of clever, passionate pop with
tinges of The Beatles, Sly & the
Family Stone and Prince thrown
in for good measure.
Wallinger, who originally
played in The Waterboys back in
fee 1980s, holes himself up in his
home studio and occasionally
shares his muse wife the rest of
us.
Egyptology, his fourth release,
a far cry from fee fresh clarity of
Goodbye Jumbo , still offers
enough tunecraft and general
oddness to make it a cut above
the run of the mill.
Wallinger's musical sensibili-
ties, like those of fellow British
eccentrics Robyn Hitchcock and
Nick Lowe, are derived from a
hippie background funneled
through alternative college radio.
What you’re left with, especial-
ly on tracks like “It is Time" and
“Curse of fee Mummy’s Tomb,”
is happy-go-lucky sunshine-
fueled guitar pop wife an under-
lying sense of populist activism.
Lisa Stansfield’s voice is ail
funked up with nowhere to go.
Wallinger’s knack for beautiful
ballads holds np on “She's the
One” and “This World," and if
the overall songwriting level has
diminished in the seven years
since Goodbye Jumbo , then it’s
only because the expectations
were so great
It’s still a keeper.
LISA Stansfield’s fourth epony-
mous album is uptown blue-eyed
r&b. A little too biue-eyed.
Stanfield’s voice is an impres-
sive instrument but surrounded
in middle-of-the-road arrange-
ments and limp disco and funk
backing tracks, it has nowhere to
go.
That voice doesn't get any
help, either, from Stansfield’s
ordinary songs, which slip from
memory like high heels on a
waxed dance floor.
On a few ballads, she tries to
enter Whitney Houston territory,
but her attempts sound more like
rubber soul.
And she never shows flashes of
fee humor she displayed in her
appearance a few years back at
the Freddy Mercury tribute con-
cert in which she canre out in
curlers wife a vacuum cleaner.
GENEVA is proof that a bad
name doesn't necessarily mean a
bad band. On fee contrary, this
debut from this Scottish quintet
is one of the better “Brit-guitar
band” releases this year.
Geneva knows a good hook
when it hears one, and its sleek,
if unimaginative, approach to fee
material exposes some fine song-
writing talent. Chiming . guitars
compete with crykalline clear
vocals, and toe punchy rhythm
takes care of the rest.
Bht th^’s nothmg here feat
hasn't been done' by. Suede or
Oaiis, which had already been
done by Bowie and The Kinks,
which bad already' been....
DANCE ROUNDUP
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SPANISH NATIONAL BALLET
Td Aviv Perforating Arts Center,
July 16
T he Spanish National Ballet concocted
a program feat was intended to show
fee wide range of the Spanish dance
language, a truly unique phenomenon in the
tling at contemporary expressions that are
still firmly within fee national framework.
Zapateado (“Stamping"), danced by Oscar
Jimenez, brought some traditional light foot-
work. With his virtuoso performance,
devoid of acrobatics, he contributed some of
fee more pleasing moments of the evening.
more credible on the TAPA stage than at
New York’s Gty Center, it is too melodra-
matic. When Granero’s Medea dances in an
unbearably verbal way, splashed on fee
floor, tearing her heart and soul out, she is
less impressive than in her duet with her
husband. King Jason, which has fee passion.
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speciality, yet Mariema's choreography in
Dance and Rhythms concentrates on staying
pretty. When it came to Gitanos y Boleros
(“Gypsies and Dancers") the desired wild
streak was unfortunately missing.
The second half of fee evening inclined
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national culture. This enables one to travel pretty intensive but cannot compete with the
easily from folk to court dance, shifting to ultimate, electrifying stage interpretation of
dramatic and theatrical stage dance, and set- Maurice Bejart Although his Medea was
lock at its deathly peak.
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THE Batsheva Ensemble, the young compa-
ny alongside Batsheva Dance Company,
systematically supports new works by
ensemble members, which sometimes pro-
duce interesting results. ■
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joins fee Vain wde Xry Lara Barsacq, -\^eran
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Bella Freund
made headlines
in 1992 for an
unusual act.
Now the haredi
woman is in the
■ public eye
again, this time
in an effort to
foster secular-
religious
dialogue, Amy
Klein reports
B ella Freund is used to doing
the unexpected. Five years
ago, the haredi woman
stopped an angry mob from attack-
ing an Arab who had just stabbed
two boys in Jerusalem’s market-
place. Shestood in front of him for
27 minutes while people kicked
and punched her; one even burnt
her with a cigarette. She did whai
“any normal human being should
have done,** she unabashedly told
the press in the weeks that fol-
lowed, taking an unusually public
stand, particularly for a haredi
woman. ‘
Freund is back in the public eye.
This time she hast joined forces
with her secular friend Dana
Ravid to found Shfluv (“integra-
tion, interweaving”), an organiza-
tion whose purpose is to create a
dialogue between secular and reli-
gious Jews. What makes this orga-
nization different from the dozens
of others around Israel is that this
one won't do anything.
Well, not anything that the other
dialogue groups do. What Shiluv
will do is serve as an umbrella
organization for all the existing
groups. “By working together,
everyone will get more power.
There are many movements. We
want to work together to influence
this nation.” says Ravid who, a
year ago. bad intended to start an
organization to promote dialogue
between the two groups but found
that there were already over 30
organizations . with this purpose,
some reduhdant, and most exhibit-
ing influence only 'within their
immediate surroundings. Unity and
coordination for the die existing
organizations, she decided, would
be her contribution.
“Ever since I moved from Haifa
to Jerusalem five years ago, I
have felt the mounting tension
between religious and non-reli-
gious Jews," says the 60-plus
Ravid. “I thought, if I don’t work
to resolve this, who will?”
Six months ago Ravid enlisted
the 45-year-old Freund to join her
in this mission. Ravid fust met
Freund four years ago when the
Society for a Better Israel (an
organization which Ravid helped
found) bestowed upon Freund an
award Tor protecting the Arab
assailant from the mob.
Over this last half year they
worked to identify the different
or ganizatio ns (Dialogue, Common
Denominator, Conversation, Paths,
to name a few) and meet with some
of their directors, who all agreed
that there was a need for a “steer-
ing” organization. On July 7,
Shiluv was bom. And now they are
ready to weak.
Their first activity: a confer-
ence, to be held, at the end of
September for all organizations
and people who would like to.
improve relations between the
religious and the non-religious.
Shiluv, as an apolitical organiza-
Lion, will work to push this issue
to the top of the national agend^
through public relations, advertis-
. • JM
Bella Freund (left) and liana Ravid, founders of Shiluv, an umbrella organization for secular-religious dialogue groups. (Sarit Uzfety)
ing, information exchange, plan- for another half,” admits Ravid. religious,” Freund insists. “First of Ravid. a “total secularist,” was
ing, information exchange, plan-
ning, and by letting the organiza-
tions “each work in their own par-
ticular way,” says Ravid.
■ “We Wain to break through the
barriers. We have to dismantle
them,” adds Freud® ■ ■
HOW DOES one improve rela-
tions between two sectors of
society that these days can barely
stand on the same side of the
street without a police blockade
between them? “It’s easy to hate
a stranger. It’s much harder to
How does one
improve relations
between two
sectors of society
that these days can
barely stand on the
same side of the
street without a
police blockade
between them?
hate someone you are sitting
face-to-face with,” says Ravid.
Freund agrees. “Look, if you take
off the nose ring and the streimel,
when you sit two people down,
something good will come out of
it”
Very nice ideals, but what hap-
pens when tiie groups come upon
unresolvable issues?
“The army is a problem for me;
I feel that half the nation is serving
“But still this is something that I
think we can talk about”
Freund agrees. “The army is a
djfflcalt Issue. I can- understand
vffijw people feefabout all the peo-
ple wbbdbnY serve, religious and
nor religious."
Both happen to think that this
is not their problem, but the gov-
ernment’s to solve. They believe
they can make their impact not so
much through discussion, but by
promoting joint activities for sec-
ular and religious people.. “Why
do we have to talk about every-
thing?”asks Freund. Next school
year, she will be working with
one of the organizations to dis-
tribute books to poor children.
Freund believes that common
causes 1 forge bonds. “I am hare-
di - let us all be hared (fearful]
against traffic accidents, against
battered women, against poor
children. These are the things we
can work together on."
The first step, though, is to
open die lines of communication.
“The minute you open a dia-
logue, you open up the process to
accept one another as they are,”
Freund believes.
But is acceptance possible?
“1 have many secular friends
whom I respect and have learned a
lor from,” says Freund. “1 want
them to understand who I am and
where I am from.
“I believe in God, not religion,
but I respect someone else’s right
to keep fee commandments,"
says Ravid. She is more wary.
“But I don’t want any religious
coercion.”
“I don’t want to make anyone
religious," Freund insists. "First of
all. it is against Jewish law to
coerce someone to be religious.
Secondly, if they were religious,
then 1 wouldn’t be with them.”
TO UNDERSTAND how unlikely
it is that these two women are
allies, one must first know that
they are from as different worlds
as two Israeli Ashkenazi women
can be: Freund’s parents, sur-
vivors of Auschwitz, were has-
sidim. Freund is also married to a
hassid, and they and their eight
children are affiliated with the
Agudat Israel party. She is an
anomaly in a community that.
“If you take off the
nose ring and the
streimel, when you
sit people down,
something good will
come out of it.”
although it values charity and
peace, prefers to keep itself - and
particularly its women - out of the
public eye.
Freund recently took a public
stand supporting the right of reli-
gious women to cover their hair
with a wig. This came in response
to a ruling by Shas Rabbi Ovadia
Yosef, prohibiting women from
covering their hair with a wig
alone. “If we can have the respon-
sibility of raising eight children, I
think we can make decisions on
how to dress,” she says.
Hockey Night
in - Metulla
M etulla is not Montreal.
Winning isn’t every-
thing.
Nemirovsky is no Beliveau.
Beliveau is no god. But he’s close.
No one could believe what they
were seeing: a hockey game, in
Israel, an all-Jewish Canadian
national team, sabras stepping out
of sandals and into skates to take
on the mighty world powerhouse.
“Maccabiah Ice Hockey
Championships: Israel vs
Canada." Sheer hutzpa!
Even the referee was in theme:
the back of his striped swearer
read “COHEN.”
The Israelis should have been
collective roadkill. an am under a
Mack .truck, tile way the Canadians
tooled up for this match. They
brought a former Stanley Cup-
winning coach, Jacques Demers of
fee Montreal Canadiens; fee
Canadiens and Toronto Maple
Leafs provided their team trainers;
the chairman of the team was a
part owner of the Montreal Expos
baseball team, Mark Routtenbeig;
a couple of the players were bor-
rowed from the National Hockey
League; and if all that weren't
enough, they brought along a leg-
end of the game, Jean Beliveau, for
inspiration.
Canada came to win. Israel, just
to participate. Both achieved their
goal.
Demers was not motivated by
the Jewishness of it all. and had no
reason to be: he was as singly ded-
icated to victory as when he paced
distant second.
Metulla Mayor Yossi Goldberg
got what he wanted: to put his
pretty border village on the map:
to bring big-time hockey to his
wo rid -class' rink, an Olympic-
sized mirage that won rapturous
kudos from everyone there.
You knew this’ was Metulla. and
not Montreal, by the depth of
Goldberg’s involvement in his
town's most insignificant opera-
tions. 1 was chatting wife
Goldberg when he noticed a work-
er struggling to open a door to the
rink. The mayor begged my par-
don and explained to the worker
the trick to jiggling this particular
latch. That's a Tim or!
(Goldberg gave the entire
Canadian team 'the use of his own
phone to call home, to reassure
their families after the opening
ceremony tragedy.)
And everybody got what they
wanted in Jean Beliveau.
He is the impossible combina-
tion of revered sports icon and
humbly cordial gentleman.
Every single person who dared
approach him was received warm-
ly; to every request for an auto-
graph. photo, handshake. Beliveau
ho-hoed abashedly and looked the
stranger in the eye with an expres-
sion that actually seemed to say
he was honored.
One fellow told Beliveau he’d
been at the game in 1951 when the
future Hall of Famer got his first
tryout. Beliveau happily remi-
nisced with him fora few minutes.
No one could believe what they were
seeing: a hockey game, in Israel, an all-
Jewish Canadian national team, sabras
stepping out of sandals and into skates.
Ravid. a “total secularise* was
bom in Israel to Polish parents -
Maskilim “intellectuals" - who
were so secular that they didn’t
• even speak Yiddish in their house,
ff upsets her that many secular
people feel they could more easily
hold a dialogue with Arabs than
with haredi m.
Despite their different worlds,
these women have much in com-
mon. They both come from
Zionist homes (Freund's father
served in the army). They are
both aesthetic in their appearance
(sharing the mirror to prep before
pictures) and in their living space
(Ravid's airy Rehavia penthouse
is filled with her sculptures and
plants, while Freund’s silver
Judaica adorns her spacious
apartment in Makor Baruch).
Professionally, they have both
devoted their careers to helping
others, Freund as a marriage
counselor and social worker, and
Ravid as a teacher and principal .
What makes them work well
together is what motivates them: a
combination of fear and love.
“We are going to lose this land
that we worked so hard for
because we will be weak,” says
Ravid.
“Jerusalem was destroyed not
because people stopped respect-
ing Shabbat,” says Freund, “but
because they didn’t respect one
another.”
“We need to create brotherly
love. For our grandchildren,"
Ravid insists.
“Not love,” concedes Freund.
“Acceptance. And not for our
grandchildren. Nor our children.
For us. For me and you.”
behind the Montreal bench.
Routtenbeig wanted to give the
players a Jewish infusion. But also
a gold medal.
The fans in attendance, they
wanted it all. And got it. Most of
them, judging by the vocal sup-
port, bleed maple syrup. There was
a busload of tourists from
Montreal, soldiers from Canada’s
Golan force, long-time immigrants
who grew up on Saturday telecasts
of Hockey Night in Canada.
You’d think those folks from the
True North Strong and Free had a
vocabulary limited to “fantastic!”
“unbelievable!" and “incredible!”
— such were the only words fans
could utter when asked their
thoughts on this improbable event.
The Canadian players, they, too,
wanted it all. And. didn't get it.
They grumbled about the compet-
itive level; the remoteness of
Metulla; the food, the lack of
beautiful women (“Hey, man, we
were promised great-looking girls
in this country”).
David Nemirovsky scored three
goals in Canada's 12-1 win. but
the consensus was that he could
have scored twice that with a few
dozen sexy female fans to spur
him on. At a post-game dinner
(which fully justified their com-
plaints about the food),
Nemirovsky nearly leapt through a
plate-glass window when a
beg owned bride strode by on the
other side.
“Women. Hockey and women,
feat’s all we want," one of his
teammates explained. “We went to
the beach in Tel Aviv, that was
great; they took us to the Wall in
Jerusalem, not so great.”
I got fee feeling these were
hockey players first, Jews a very
Lionel Gaffen, a photographer
from Kfar Giladi. had this obser-
vation: “Watch him — everyone
who asks for an autograph, they
expect nothing more, but he
spends a moment with each one.
He asks a personal question, like
where they're from or if they’re
enjoying the game. Anyone who
asks him to pose for a photo: he
puts his arm around their shoul-
ders and pulls them in close, like a
father."
Whai an athlete from
Victoriaville, Quebec, has in
common wife an Upper Galilee
politician I can't imagine, but
Beliveau and Goldberg found a
lot to talk about.
Even odder was when a uni-
formed EDF colonel — far more
likely from Morocco or Iraq titan
from Canada — sat down next to
Beliveau. Judging by their body lan-
guage. they looked like old friends.
When he wasn’t besieged by
fens, mayors, soldiers or newspa-
permen, Beliveau 's attention
fumed to the game. He had only
good things to say — about the
Canada Ccnier complex, the rink,
the quality of the ice, even about
the team feat was in the process of
losing 1 2-1 . He applauded fee lone
Israeli goal, lauded fee over-
whelmed goalie, admired the
doggedness of the Israeli team. He
spoke about Israel like a dyed-in-
the-wool Zionist.
He didn’t complain about the
food or the women; wouldn’t
know how.
I, too, got what I wanted. A
dream come true,- if you'll pardon
the regression into childish exuber-
ance. I watched a hockey game sit-
ting next to my boyhood idol. Like
we were buddies.
Tuesday, July 22, 1997 This Jerusalem Post
THEATER REVIEW
A play
on worlds
By MAONB DOUDA1
H illei Mittelpunki competes
only with Hanoch Levin as
one of today’s most prolific
as well as pessimistic Hebrew play-
wright-directors.
His 26th play to date Can Eden
Darom {" South of Paradise"), now
premiering at Beit Less in, Tel Aviv,
surpasses anything he has previ-
ously done.
His usual steamy, squalid slum
milieus throbbing with the agonies,
ecstasies, pathos and prides of
damaged lives and derelict loves is
here compounded with a present-
day Ethiopian-Romanlan-Russian-
Sephardi-Ashkenazi mix that siz-
zles with cross-cultural frictions
and friendships.
SOUTH OF PARADISE
By Hilld Mltteipnnfct
A study of a stagnant southern
town portrayed through the goings-
on of the said Cafe Gan Eden and
its habitugs is developed in a novel,
almost surreal structure of quick-
change vignettes, monologues, con-
fessionals and other arresting dra-
matic devices. The play maintains
its hold over the audience until the
very end, which suffers somewhat
from a lame denouement This is
about the only criticism that can be
leveled at an otherwise deeply pen-
etrating, realistic piece.
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"TURANDOT"
by Puccini
Opera in concert form at the
PHILHARMONIC
Leona Mitchell / Audrey Stottler, soprano
Lucia Mazzaria / Angela Maria Blasi, mwzo-wpr.uio
Vladimir Bogachov / Gegam Grigorian . tenor
Ugo Benelli, tenor
Paolo Barbacini. tenor
AngelO VeCCia, baritone
Andrea Silvestrelti, bass
Sarny Bechar, tenor
Vladimir Braun, bass -ban tone
Coro del Maggio Musical e Fiorentino
directed by Jose Luis Basso
Ankor Children's Choir
directed by Dafna Ben-Yohanan
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rocky relationships are competent-
ly and deftly handled in
Minelpunkt's direction. His text
injects a nonstop infusion of local
lingo and pithy street humor into
the ongoing tenor of brutality and
violence.
But above all. this production
deserves to be seen for its eight out-
standing performances. To assem-
ble in one cast leading artists of the
caliber of Aharon Almog (consum-
mate as Dolphy, the darkly tragic,
ruefiil Romanian), Gedalia Besser
(his Odessa, the pedantic Russian,
is yet another example of his ele-
gant and exquisite acting), and
Mati Seri (who, as Ruby, a small-
time Pop-pusher, gives one of his
most dynamic, deeply-felt charac-
ter roles to date) is in itself a colos-
sal feat
The best and most unexpected
performance comes from the hith-
erto unknown young newcomer
Udi Gil, a ’‘natural’' in the role of
Asher, the desperate, delinquent
son. He invests a demanding part
with a fine balance of poignancy
and crude passion.
Ada Lev ’s Viva, his tempestuous,
temperamental Mum, is delightful
if deeply disturbing. Asi Levy's
tough single-mother taxi-driver
Jackie, is another spunky, refresh-
ing study. Sbarona, a demented
disco-dancer (alas, in die text the
role loses its vibrancy towards the
end), is realized by Daphna
Rechter with the right degree of
frantic flamboyance and eye-catch-
ing allure. The Ethiopian waitress,
a gentle, hovering presence
throughout, is played by Tammy
Akalla with unassuming charm.
Hie relationship between David (Brian Austin Green, above) and Donna is about to change.
‘90210’ trauma
By DAHEL J. CHALFEN
T onight's episode of Beverly
Hills 90210 (8:55. Channel
3) was cited by many US TV
critics as the “episode that will
change American thinking" when
it was aired there almost two
months ago. In this, the last
episode in the current - and most
recent - series, innocent, angelic
Donna Martin (played by Tori
Spelling, daughter of producer
Aaron Spelling) loses her virginity
to long-term, Jewish boyfriend
David Silver (Brian Austin Green).
It is the end of their college
years, they are set to graduate, and
Donna has decided that she is
ready to take her relationship with
David that one step further. She
has seen her roommate Kelly’s
recent unwanted pregnancy and
then miscarriage, she has been
jealous of the after-dark hours
other couples spend with each
other, she has brushed with
Valerie's promiscuity and Steve
and Clare's intensely tactile rela-
tionship, and has now decided she
is ready to lose her virginity.
But over the years, through
which Donna has turned down
many sexual propositions on
grounds of morality and Christian
ethic, she has developed a follow-
ing of fans, many of whom took
vows of celibacy outside of mar-
riage as a consequence. This con-
cluding episode therefore came as a
slap in the face for the anti-sex-
before-marriage movement which
has been snapping up teenagers in
schools and colleges across the US
in recent years. Psychologists
reported a considerable amount of
patients, teenagers and some in
their early 20s, who were trauma-
tized by the episode.
“They had created for them-
selves a hero, based their lifestyles
on her, only to have their illusions
shattered,” said a New York-born
Israeli psychologist, “but it should
not happen here, where Beverly
Hills itself has had less social
impact and where value systems
are less determined by TV heroes
than in the US.”
With the conclusion of this
series, debate about whether we
will ever again see die Beverly
Hills cast in these roles is rife.
There is speculation that an eighth
series, Beverly Hills, the Married
Years, is being planned. Jason
Priestly, Brandon Walsh in the
series, who is now one of the pro-
ducers as well as an actor, is very
keen to return. He has, however,
stated that he would only do so if
he is billed as executive producer.
Jennie Garth, Kelly Taylor in the
series, has made it clear, however,
that despite her current $20,000 an
episode payroll, she feels her
Beverly Hills days are over and it
is time to move on.
FESTIVAL ROUNDUP
Arad’s
‘spiritual’ side
ByAMYKLBM
N ever has the maxim “You
get out of something only
what you put into it” been
more true than at last week’s
three-day Arad music festival,
. where audience reactions
matched the energy of the per-
formers.
Take Marti Caspi ’s understated
stage presence. At a gig attended
by a crowd that had mere gray
hair than not, Caspi didn’t yell,
dance, or cajole the crowd.
Typical, deadpan Caspi: aside
from a terse explanation fra- his
four-year fintoujjsh (“I had some
things I needed to do. I'm glad to
be back”) and a few sardonic
comments, be sat still and played.
A standing ovation marked his
entrance and exit, but for the
□lost part much of the crowd was
talking without bothering to
whisper, walking around, at
times singing along: bored and
restless - especially (hiring the
new songs.
His voice as mellifluous as
ever, Caspi sang his own songs
as well as ones he wrote for other
singers like Yebudit Ravitz and
RfldGaL
To see how area/ star treats ber
audience, Rita’s gig was the
place to be. With a regal stage
presence, the sexy, beautiful
soprano danced, laughed and
sang, bestowing upon the crowd
of 1,400 a true show. Her
changes of costume (a black, sul-
try number; a fun ruby flounce
and a classy, cream-colored
belly-baring gown) was nothing
less than one would expect from
her. Her husband Rami
Kleinstein is more like the boy
□ext door. “Good morning!" he
beams even though it’s three in
the morning on the concert stage
set up below Masada. “Why are
you all standing so far away?”
He looks to the guards. “Is there
any reason they can’t move up?
They'll be good, I promise."
In his first performance of
eight months, KJc instem, at the
piano under the starry sky, made
you feel like you were in his liv-
ing room. Cleverly, he intro-
duced the songs from his new
album in between his older hits
such as “Apples and Dates” and
“Forever Young."
Someone who made full use of
die dramatic Masada setting was
David Broza. who also per-
formed at three in the morning.
During his all-Hebrew perfor-
mance, different pans of the
moantaintop were lit up in white
or red, flame-like lighting- Broza
spared us his usual 20 -minuie
nffs and making love to his gra-
tae For three hours he treated the
audience to rate of his best per-
formances, perhaps because be
invited performers such as Ronh
Shahar to share die stage.
“Masada is very spiritual. I've
performed all over the world,
and no one_ can build a stage
like this,” Broza told The
Jerusalem Post.
For teens the highlight of die
festival was the thunderous night
of hard rock, featuring Ice 9, Hie
Jews, Roquefort. Bany Saharov
and an electric Ayiv Gefen. It
was a freaks’ field day: tongue
rings, mohawks (“Statue of
Liberty haircuts”), befly-neck-
laces, tattoos, chains, etc-
A taste for the shteti
By GREER FA Y C ASHMAN
T he growing world-wide
popularity of klezmer
muse was evidenced by
the thousands of people who
flocked to Safed last week for
the IOth annua! Klezmer
Festival.'
The crowds moving through
Safed 's winding alleys were fre-
quently headed in die direction
of the mote authentic sounds,
though many stopped to listen to
Nunu, the six-member jazz
klezmer band from Munich
whose musicians are not Jewish
but sing in Lithuanian-accented
Yiddish.
Band leader and bass player
Uwe Scbwidewski doesn’t see
anything unusual about a
German {group adopting
klezmer music. "Musical emo-
tions are not exclusive,” he says.
“Music belongs to everyone -
but we have our own particular
interpretation.” What was most
heartening to Nunu was die' pos-
itive feedback from Orthodox
audiences in Safed. Nunu has
played before similar audiences
in Europe, but the band mem-
bers weren't quite sure of the
reception they would receive in
Israel. As it turned out, drey
were areal hit’ ■
Avi Pi amenta, the jazz musi-
cian and composer who is now a
Habad hassid, played several
gigs, but the busiest performer
was storyteller Sbaul Mayzlish,
who moved from stage to stage
with a cornucopia of mostly
ha&sidic parables.
He was at his best at the risk -
a totally atmospheric heurdshe
reception on die patio of Habad
House, where male guests rose
from tables piled with herring,
cakes, cookies, soft drinks and
vodka to dance with wild aban-
don almost to a state of ecstasy as
the rhythm of die music quick-
ened and spectators joined in by
stamping their feet and dapping.
mum
The muse from the mummy’s tomb
By DAVID BRINN
K arl Wallinger under the
moniker World Party is
responsible for one of the
best albums of the 1990s. as any
of the few dozens of people who
own it can attest.
EGYPTOLOGY
World Party
INMO ‘
LISA STANFIELD
Lisa Stanfield
iHed Artzf)
FURTHER
Genera
(NMCl
Goodbye Jumbo was chock full
of clever, passionate pop with
tinges of The Beaties. Sly & the
Family Stone and Prince thrown
in for good measure.
Wallinger, who originally
played in The Waterboys back in
the 1980s. holes himself up in his
home studio and occasionally
shares his muse with the rest of
us.
Egyptology, his fourth release,
a far cry from the fresh clarity of
Goodbye Jumbo, still offers
enough tunecraft and general
oddness to make it a cut above
the run of the mill.
Wallinger’s musical sensibili-
ties, like those of fellow British
eccentrics Robyn Hitchcock and
Nick Lowe, are derived from a
hippie background funneled
through alternative college radio.
What you’re left with, especial-
ly on tracks like "It is Time” and
“Curse of the Mummy's Tomb,”
is happy-go-lucky sunshine-
fueled guitar pop with an under-
lying sense of populist activism.
Lisa Stansfield’s voice is all
funked up with nowhere to go.
Wallinger's knack for beautiful
ballads holds up on “She’s the
One” and “This World,” and if
the overall songwriting level has
diminished in the seven years
since Goodbye Jumbo, then it’s
only because the expectations
were so great.
It's still a keeper.
LISA Stansfield’s fourth epony-
mous album is uptown blue-eyed
r&b. A little too blue-eyed.
Stanfield’s voice is an impres-
sive instrument, but surrounded
in middle-of-the-road arrange-
ments and limp disco and funk
backing tracks, it has nowhere to
go-
That voice doesn’t get any
help, either, from Stansfield’s
ordinary songs, which slip from
memory like high heels on a
waxed dance floor.
On a few ballads, she tries to
enter Whitney Houston territory,
but her attempts sound more like .
rubber soul.
And she never shows flashes of
the humor she displayed in her
appearance a few years back at
the Freddy Mercury tribute con-
- cert in which she came out in
curlers with a vacuum cleaner.
GENEVA is. proof that a bad
name doesn't necessarily mean a
bad band. On the contrary, this
debut from this Scottish quintet
is one of the better “Brit-guitar
band” releases this year.
Geneva knows a good hook
when it hears one, and its sleek,
if unimaginative, approach to the
material exposes some fine song-
writing talent Chiming guitars
compete with crystalline clear
vocals, and the punchy rhy thm
takes care of the rest.
But there’s nothing here that
hasn’t been done by Suede or
Oasis, which had already been
done by Bowie and The Kinks,
which had already been....
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Monday, 21.7.97, 20 -JO Haifa, Haifa Aud. concert 10, series B
Tuesday, 22.7.97, 20:30 Haifa, Haifa Aud. concert 10, series C
Wednesday, 23.7.97, 20:30 T-A. Mann Aud. concert 11, series A
In memory of those killed at the Israeli Embassy and the AMIA
Building in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Thursday, 24.7.97, 20:30 T-A, Mann Aud. concert 11. series B
j Saturday, 26.7.97, 21:00 T-A, Mann Aud. concert H. series C
Sunday, 27.7.97, 20:30 T-A, Mann Aud. concert 11, series E
Monday, 28.7.97, 20 JO T-A, Mann Aud. concert 11, series F
Tuesday. 29.7.97.i^ffi)T-A, Mann Aud. concert 6, Light Classical Music |
Viva Espana! Fancy footwork straight from Spain
By ORA BRAFMAN
SPANISH NATIONAL BALLET
Tel Aviv Performing
July U
: Arts Center:
T he Spanish National Ballet concocted
a program that was intended to show
the wide range of the Spanish dance
language, a truly unique phenomenon in the
West, whereby a codified-movement vocab-
ulary is totally identified with a specific
national culture. This enables one to travel
easily from folk to court dance, shifting to
dramatic and theatrical stage dance, and'set-
iling at contemporary expressions that are
still firmly within the national framework.
Zapatcado ("Stamping"), danced by Oscar
Jimenez, brought some traditional light foot-
work. With his virtuoso performance,
de\ oid of acrobatics, he contributed some of
the more pleasing moments of the evening.
Communicating through change of inten-
sity and Frequency of rhythms is a Spanish
speciality, yet Mariema’s choreography in
Dance and Rhythms concentrates on staying
pretty. When it came to Gitanos y Boleros
(“Gypsies and Dancers") the desired wild
streak was unfortunately missing.
The second half of the evening inclined
toward high drama with choreographer Jose
Granero's Bolero and Medea. His Bolero is
pretty intensive but cannot compete with the
ultimate, electrifying stage interpretation of
Maurice BejarL Although his Medea was
more credible on the TAPA stage than at
New York's City Center, it is loo melodra-
matic. When Granero's Medea dances in an
unbearably verbal way. splashed on the
floor, tearing her heart and soul out, she is
less impressive than in her duet with her
husband. King Jason, which has the passion,
pride and pain of a powerful love-hate dead-
lock at its deathly peak.
BATSHEVA ENSEMBLE
Suzanne Delta!, July 18
THE Batsheva Ensemble, the young compa-
ny alongside Batsheva Dance Company,
systematically supports new works by
ensemble members, which sometimes pro-
duce interesting results.
Yossi Berg’s first solo work. Architect ;
joins the Vain Ode by Lara Barsacq, veteran
of the ensemble, and unveils a talented
dancer-creator' with a lot of promise.
Although the world premier of 100
Movements by Canadian choreographer
Lynda Gaudreau was intended to be die
show's highlight, Larmes blanches (“White
Tears”) by French choreographer Angelin
Rerijocaj took cm ter stage. It turned, our to
be the only work that is coherent in its visu-
al images as well as in thought processes.
Perljocaj takes .die time to establish a
series of theme-mdvements drat form a solid
foundation for his, artistic voice. ESs clear
control of stagecraft is ever more convincing
after seeing Barsacq ’s and GahdreanV
works, which are scholastic yet mechanical
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FEATURES
US policy institutes redefine roles
With the Cold War over, think tanks opt for stringency, sound-bites and cyberspace
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By STEVEN ERLAMGER
WASHINGTON - The staid
community of Washington “think
tanks" has been trying over the
last year or so to find new ways to
capture the attention of a post-
Cofd War America, realizing that
the only way they can change the
world is to get somebody to listen.
• The Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace has hired a
new- president who is known for
applying her scientific training to
new, “global” issues such as ter-
rorism and the environment. And
it has revamped its subsidized
magazine, Foreign Policy , to look
more like a literary magazine and
to grab a broader audience.
Over at the Brookings Institution,
new President, Michael H.
Armacost feared that his organiza-
tion was too closely associated with
die Democratic Party and drat peo-
ple were too busy to read its schol-
arly research. Armacost hired a cen-
trist Republican to direct foreign-
policy studies. He is known for his
quick mind and media savvy and
hds become one of Washington’s
mostquoted experts.
At! the same time, Brookings is
paring down its list of fellows and
asking them to write shorter
research summaries, or “policy
briefe,” for Washington politicians
and professionals.
Tfce appointments of Jessica T.
Matte ws, 51, as head of the
Caniegie Endowment for
International Peace and Richard N.
Haass, 45, at Brookings, are pan of
each institute's plan to find a new
look and new financial support.
Ms. Mathews made her mark
as an innovator. A former
Washington Post columnist, she
turned down a top job in the
Clinton administration to become
Carnegie’s president. While she is
well-grounded in traditional areas
and has served on the board of
both Carnegie and Brookings, her
appointment is emblematic of the
search for a more global rationale.
“I don’t think my appointment
had symbolic value to the search
committee," she said. “But it
clearly does to others," who have
sent her hundreds of letters.
In part, she said, it is “a sense
that 1 don’t have a traditional for-
eign-policy background," with
career-long efforts to integrate
new themes such as the spread of
nuclear weapons or human rights
or the environment. And in part it
is her ability, like Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright’s, to
break gender ceilings.
The changes at Brookings,
which also has major divisions in
economic and governmental stud-
ies, are less striking and more tra-
ditional. For the last 18 months,
Armacost has been engineering a
quiet shake-up to make it more
nonpartisan “in a way that shapes
the public agenda and is useful to
policy makers,” he said.
“The public is looking for prac-
tical answers, not ideology," he
added.
At a time when money for for-
eign policy is decreasing , whether
in Congress or among charitable
foundations, there is a new, com-
petitive concentration on sales-
manship - getting the message
pithy and quotable, for legislators
and a wider national audience.
The paradox, as Haass sees it. is
that “os the old paradigms are
shifting and nothing has taken their
place," the study of foreign policy
by outsiders should be thriving,
since government officials are gen-
erally too busy to think.
"But with the Cold War over,
there’s less urgency, and interest
in foreign policy is smaller than
it’s been in the last 30 or 40
years,” he said.
Ms. Mathews said the main diffi-
culty for the policy research groups,
a problem Albright also faces, is
that "while there is general recogni-
tion that we’re the indispensable
nation, the question remains.
‘Indispensable for what?.’ But the
one-answer answer isn’t working,
ahd without one answer in a sound-
bite society, it’s hard to articulate a
rationale without the Cold War’s
military imperative.” she said.
Starting as a science adviser to
Congress with a Ph.D in molecu-
lar biology. Ms. Mathews became
director of issues and research in
Rep. Morris Udall’s campaign for
the 1976 Democratic presidential
nomination, and then, at 30, creat-
ed the Office of Global Issues in
Zbigniew Brzezinski’s National
Security Council under president
Jimmy Carter, where Armacost '
and Ms. Albright also served.
Her mother, the late historian
Barbara Tuchman, pushed her to
write - “die said it's a muscle you
need,” Ms. Mathews remembered.
"and a way to team to write is
through journalism.”
After Carter's 1980 reelection
defeat, she wrote editorials for The
Washington Post for three years,
then helped found the World
Resources Institute, one of the
first research institutions to focus
on the environment and govern-
ment policy.
When she left 1 1 years later, its
staff, which had grown from 3 to
NO, taught her about institution-
building, fund-raising and promot-
ing research that affects govern-
ment policy.
She left to enter the the Clinton
administration as deputy under
secretary on global affairs, but quit
in frustration after nine months.
The size of the bureaucracy, its
traditional training and emphasis
on crisis management made it hard
to concentrate on global issues.
“It’s the difference between a
chronic illness and a severe one,"
she said. "In government, you think
it’s all about the cables you read,
and it's hard to see that things are
happening that are beyond your
control." increasingly, die argues,
key actors are nongovernmental
agencies or citizens' groups such as
Amnesty International and interna-
tional institutions such as the World
Bank or the United Nations.
Other institutions, such as the
Heritage Foundation, continue to
thrive on more ideological grounds.
This use of ideas as weapons craft-
ed for political wars by "combat
intellectuals"- rather than "nonide-
ological tools to be employed by
policy makers regardless of their
political affiliation”- was the focus
of a valedictory essay by Charles
William Maynes. after 17 >eais of
running Carnegie’s Foreign Policy.
Hie magazine’s first issue under
a new editor, Moises Naim, has
just appeared, with shorter articles,
summaries of key articles in for-
eign and foreign-language jour-
nals, more reviews of books pub-
lished abroad, a new web site, and
more photographs.
While Carnegie has a large
endowment, raising funds is
increasingly important as some
traditional givers have stopped
financing foreign-policy projects.
Ms. Mathews also wants to
address "this whole question of
public attention to foreign policy, of
which the shrinking pool of funds is
a reflection." Polls show great pub-
lic interest in foreign policy, "while
there’s a complete disconnect
between the polls and Congress,"
which is more isolationist “The
problem is not the general public so
much, but Congress,” she said. "We
have to really think about this."
Brookings is also thinking about
where to downsize. On the Middle
East or arms control, "a lot of the
conceptual woik has been done,”
Haass said. "It needs to be imple-
mented, but that’s insider work.”
He has encouraged some scholars
to go into government or do field
work to reenergize themselves, and
favors shorter-term appointments.
"I see Brookings as a place
where you spend pan of a career.”
he said. “Maybe people shouldn't
spend 40 years at a think tank.”
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Coney Island to
get facelift
Bv DOUGLAS MARTIN
NEW YORK. - Inspired by
the success of effons to rede-
velop Times Square, private
investors and state officials are
now turning their attention to
another long-neglected pan of
New York City: Coney Island.
The efforts have gained new
momentum in recent weeks
because Bruce Ratner. a devel-
oper with a proven track record
in several large projects, has
shown interest “in Coney Island.
Ratner's most notable project
so far is the Metrotech office
complex, which has been cred-
ited with reviving downtown
Brooklyn.
Coney Island, perhaps more
than any other address in New
York, most approaches the histor-
ical flamboyance and cachet of
Times Square - and still retains a
mythic reputation as a land of
roller coasters, snake handlers
and other amusements. But the
reality is much grimmer. The
amusement area has shrunk from
20 blocks in length in the 1940s
to three blocks, and much of
the land abandoned by
amusement attractions ^
lies vacant.
Ratner's proposal,
which involves
private invest-
ment of SI 00
million, is to
link a new multi-
plex theater and vir-
tual-reality amusement
park with a decade-old
plan for an amateur sports \
center that would .
be built with IN THE BIG APPLE
money from state
bonds.
For Ratner's proposal to go
forward, he would have to
acquire the land from the city,
which now owns it. The plan
must also pass environmental
and zoning reviews, a process
that could take several years. But
state officials said they believed
that Rainer's proposal complied
with zoning rules for the Coney
Island area.
Ratner has refused to com-
ment publicly on his proposal.
But Charles Gargano. the chair-
man of the Empire State
Development Corp., a major
player in Times Square, said that
ihe stare was committed to the
redevelopment of the area and
that Ratner’s involvement was a
major boost for these efforts. He
added that he had spoken to
other developers who he said
also thought that such a Coney
Island project would work, and
that he and the governor had had
“many discussions” recently
about Coney Island.
If we can rebuild 42nd
Street, we can certainly rebuild
Coney Island," Gargano said.
"What it needs is some invest-
ment.” The current discussion is
linked to the status of
Sportsplex. a proposed 12,300-
seat indoor athletic center that
would be in the old
Steeplechase Park amusement
area - once the centerpiece of
Coney Island. Financing for
Sportsplex is part of the current
budget negotiations in Albany
and would require $75m. in
bonds from the state; the
Legislature has failed to
approve the proposal for the last
two years. State officials say
the Ratner project is based upon
the approval of Sportsplex.
Gargano said the project’s
prospects were sweeter this
year because of Ratner's pro-
posal and because of several
other developers' interest in
commercial developments to
accompany the arena.
Gargano pledged state help
with transportation and other
infrastructure improvements, as
well as aid in acquiring private
land. „ , .
He said Gov. George Pataki,
who he said supports Sportsplex,
is eager to prod development of
Coney Island, regardless of
whether Sportsplex goes ahead.
"Sportsplex would be a good
pan of it. but it doesn’t have to
be.” Gargano said. “There was-
n’t one of those when Coney
Island was booming."
Nevertheless, development
effons face many obstacles, not
the least of which is that, unlike
Times Square, Coney Island is
far away from the main stomp-
ing grounds of tourists. Also, its
main attraction in the early part
of the century - the beach - is
not the draw it once was, since
automobiles have made places
such as Jones Beach on Long
island and other spots easily
accessible.
Furthermore, the current
redevelopment efforts are pred-
icated on a combined public-
private effort, and the dccades-
long effort to improve Times
Square showed how difficult
these efforts can be.
Caroline Quartararo, a
spokeswoman for Empire State
Development Corp., the state
economic development agency.
said she believed that the pro-
ject would pass environmental
and zoning review's, adding.
-When the public sector gets
involved, it reduces unneces-
sary roadblocks for the private
sector." So far. only Ratner has
put forth a concrete proposal,
but other developers agree that
the time may be right for a
showy commercial develop-
ment in Coney Island, particu-
larly if it is accompanied by the
sort of governmental aid Times
Square received. There, the
state spent $75m., largely in
condemnation proceedings, to
stimulate SI. 6b. in private
expenditures.
“We believe it’s a ripe area
for development.” said Philip
Wolf, who is overseeing the
building of Brooklyn's first new
hotel in 50 years for the Muss
Development Co. in the bor-
ough's downtown area.
Lewis Rudin. a leading real-
estate developer and chairman
of the Association for a Better
New York, suggested that what
he termed "a modem-day enter-
tainment center" could redi-
rect Brooklynites' recre-
ational patterns. "There
are 2.4 million peo-
ple in Brooklyn,
and they don't
all go to
Times
Square." he
said. "TheyTl
turn their cars
around and head
south.”
The backers of Sportsplex
asked Ratner to do
a business analy-
sis of the area
around Sportsplex 's hopeful
site. Gargano had suggested
that such an analysis was likely
to make the project more attrac-
tive to the governor.
The developer returned with a
lull-scale development propos-
al, which foundation officials
and their consultants say he has
already submitted to ihe city.
The details of his proposal
were contained in an economic
analysis conducted by TAMS
Consultants Inc. The proposal
involves a more than 400,000-
square-foot entertainment and
retail complex to stretch from
15th to 19th Streets. It would
include the sort of electronic
games now popular in Times
Square, and it would partly sit
on land presently occupied by
the skeleton of the Thunderbolt
roller coaster, which dosed in
1983. It would generate more
than 1 ,000 construction jobs and
more than 300 permanent jobs,
TAMS said.
Andrew Parker, a principal of
the consulting firm, said his and
Ratner's own analysis assumed
no subsidies, other than being
given vacant land owned by the
city. TAMS calculated that the
project would generate $ 12.1m.
in new annual tax revenues for the
dty and $9.5m. for the state after
subtracting $4.8m. a year in debt
service on state-backed bonds.
Ramer, a major contributor to
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, has
also been involved in the rede-
velopment of the Times Square
area and developed the Atlantic
Center mall project in
Brooklyn.
The Sportsplex project is a
262.000-square-foot facility
where 12,300 spectators could
watch basketball games, track
meets and other indoor athletic
events.
Backers say there are only 54
public gyms in Brooklyn, a bor-
ough that is home to an estimat-
ed 600.000 amateur athletes,
some of whom practice track
events in school hallways. In
addition, there is no athletic
venue in Brooklyn with more
than St. Francis University’s
1 .800 seats.
Because there are so few
venues between Madison Square
Garden and small high school
gyms, school officials said
Sportsplex would attract athletes
from beyond Brooklyn.
"We don’t see it as a Brooklyn
facility; we see it as a citywide
facility,” said William
Thompson, president of the
Board of Education, which has
pledged to pay $1 for each stu-
dent using Sportsplex. Brooklyn
colleges have promised $2 a user.
Sportsplex planners also hope
to rent the center for events as
varied as business conventions
and ethnic festivals.
They have also discussed pos-
sible bookings with the
Ringling Brothers and Bamum
& Bailey Circus, the Harlem
Globetrotters and organizers of
pro wrestling and tractor pulls
and other events they see veiy
much in the tradition of Coney
Island's raucous show-business
heritage. They calculate that
rent from such events, expected
to take up only 9 percent of
Sportsplex’s bookings, would
more than cover the center’s
estimated $2 Jm. annual operat-
ing cost. {New York Times )
ftjMBher
BUSINESS^ FI NANCE
Tuesday,
July 22, 1997
3.610
310.77
3.567
30546
■
3.524
3CM-1S
MARKETS
in brief
DOLLAR / SHEKEL
MAOF INDEX
T W Th F M
T W Til S M
GOLD
S per ounce
OIL
S per barrel of brent crude
338.65
184
32845
18-4
319.25
17.8
T w TTl F
T w Th F
DOLLAR / DEUTSCHEMARK
2.115
1.795
1.158
July 1995 • July 1997
DOW JONES INDUST. AVG.
10849
BOSS
5427
2816
July 1996 - Jtfy 1997
NetGrocer to join on-line shopping business
NetGrocer Inc. was scheduled to launch an on-line shopping
service yesterday that will deliver canned food, toilet paper, and
other items for a modest charge in a bid to change the way many
groceries are distributed.
The Web-based service has no membership fee, but will charge
$2.99 to deliver via Federal Express 10 pounds (3.7 kg.) of non-
perishable products anywhere in the US. Each additional 10
poBnds-wiil cost another 99 cents.
targeting customers who want merchandise delivered to
their homes without the hassle associated with supermarkets -
time spent on the trip, waiting in long lines and transporting
heavy bags of groceries," company president Daniel Nissan said.
NetGrocer will buy its products from manufacturers and resell
them to shoppers on-line. AMR Corp.'s American Airlines distrib-
ution services unit will handle product selection and warehousing.
(Reuters)
Ne’eman unveils NIS
extra budget cut tonight
NIS lb.-plus increase
By DAWD HARRIS
Finance Minister Ya'acov
Ne’eman will present the
Treasury's proposal for an NIS
800 million supplementary bud-
get cut at a special cabinet ses-
sion tonight
It is still unclear whether there
will be majority support for the
plan, with several ministers still
strongly opposed to die cuts.
Among these are Defense
Minister Yitzhak Mordechai,
Education Minister ' Zevulun
Hammer, Health Minister
Yehoshua Matza, Labor and
Social Affairs Minister Eli
Yishai, Interior Minister Eli
Suissa, and Transport Minister
Yitzhak Levy.
Meanwhile, in separate meet-
ings with Mordechai and Matza,
Ne’eman held his first talks on
the 1998 budget, Mordechai
demanded an NIS 1.5 billion
increase and Matza another NIS
1.3b., according to a senior
Finance Ministry source.
Of the NIS 800m. cut propos-
al, NIS 600m. are specifically
targeted at reducing the govern-
ment's burgeoning budget
deficit, the remaining NIS
200m. are split between NIS
180m. in' US aid that will be
transferred from Israel to Jordan
and NIS 20m. that will fund the
replenishment of the country’s
gas-mask supply.
The key NIS 600m. cut is
aimed at reducing the domestic
budget deficit to 2.2 percent of
the gross domestic product or
NIS 7.2b. Before the cut, the
domestic deficit is riding at
some NIS lb. to NIS 2b. above
the target figure of NIS 7.909b.,
according to the Treasury.
“We decided not to cut more
because NIS 600m. will bring us
close to our target, we are in the
middle of or even approaching
the end of the year, and we did-
n’t want to exacerbate the slow-
down which a larger cut may
have done,” the Treasury source
said.
Among the Treasury consider-
ations in compiling the cut pro-
posals were estimates that there
will be an NIS 5b. to NIS 5.5b.
shortfall in revenues and an NIS
4b. to NIS 5b. underspend in
government expenditure. The
revenues’ shortfall Includes NIS
3.5b. in customs and VAT pay-
ments and NIS I b. from income
and other direct taxes. The gov-
ernment underspent some NIS
3 b. in public sector salaries
because of the relatively low
inflation rate and NIS lb. on
mortgages. ,
The upshot of this and the NIS
600m. cut, together with the US
aid expected in the last quarter,
could be that the government
meets its overall NIS 9.744b.
budget deficit target, or even
improves on it, according to the
Treasury source.
The NIS 600m. cut comprises
an across-the-board 0.9% in all
mini stries other than Defense
and Health, where the cut will
be 0 . 6 %.
The additional NIS 200m. cut
will be levied at 0.26% in all
ministries.
Each ministry will have ; to
■ decide by Thursday, whore to
make the.cuts. The Treasury will
then suggest any changes before ;
the proposals are presented to :
the Knesset Finance. Committee :
for approvaL j-
The Treasury pointed out yes-.j
terday that closing all the minis-
terial offices in Tel. Aviv would
immediately save NIS lOra., . ,
Aside from reducing the I997j
budget deficit, the cut me*" -
next year’s budget /base will
lower by NIS 600rai._ .
Assuming the cabinet read .
agreement tonight, attention Wfl (
turn to the 1998 -budget.- on
Sunday iii the first of three cahi-i
net debates. j
Talk of the trade
Two traders talk on the floor of the German bourse in Frankfurt yesterday. Bourse trading was Interrupted for about 90 min-
utes due to technical difficulties but the DAX index later fell 88.13 points to 4,108.40 points. (Reuters)
IAI in
bid to sell
to Vietnam
By STEVE RODAN
Magic to launch
cutback plan
Israel Aircraft Industries is
peeing with five foreign com
to supply a communications
lite to Vietnam, officials and i
try sources said yesterday.
;• The contacts, they mid,
more than a year ago during the idsi
of IAI executives to Vietnam anc
intensified during the June 12-16
visit to that country by
Communications Minister Lunar
LivnaL A decision on the satellite
purchase is expected by the end of
the year. Vietnam wants the satellite
delivered by 1999. . .
"Vietnam is now in the stage ofta
feasibility study,” an IAI executr e
said- “They are looking far wh £
suits their needs best- Meanwh3 5 -
we are maintaining contact”
. Industry sources said die othp; ■
companies competing to supply
Vietnam with a communication
Currency liberalization
measures take effect this week
By JENNIFER FRjEDUN
Magic Software Enterprises will
undergo a restructuring program,
including a "significant" reduction
of locally based intemadonal mar-
keting activities and the moving of
one of the top three senior executive
positions to the US, spokesman Han
Vagenshtein said yesterday.
The developer of software tools is
moving six marketing positions to
the US and has given locally based
employees the option to relocate.
Over tee past few quarters, tee
company has not achieved its sales
targets for the US, forcing it to
rethink its strategic approach to the
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market with the greatest potential.
“Magic realized teat in Older to
sell in tee States, senior management
has to be in tee US," Vigenshtein
said. The company will also make
changes in the structure of its US
operations.
While Magic’s US-based head-
quarters are in California, most of
tee company's clients are on the East
Coast, making it difficult to achieve
sales targets. “Far these kinds of
sales you need face-to-face contact,”
said Abe Finks! stein, an analyst at
Josepteal Lyon & Ross in
Washington, DC.
Based in Herzliya, Magic’s tools
are used by programmers to develop
software applications without hav-
ing to write tee lines of computer
code required in conventional pro-
gramming. Half die company’s 300
employees are based in Israel
By DAVID HARRIS
Recipients of German repara-
tions and foreign pensions may
invest them abroad, the Bank of
Israel announced yesterday.
This, together with a series of
other currency liberalization mea-
sures, came into force this week,
following an agreement on the
package between tee central bank.
Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu, and former finance
minister Dan Meridor.
Other relaxations of currency
controls include raising the limit
on provident fund investments
abroad, permitting the use of a for-
eign broker for international
investments, and increasing the
amount transferable to Israelis
abroad and foreigners.
The changes are a part of the
central bank's ongoing policy of
liberalization. By this time next
year, this policy will mean virtual-
ly all restrictions will have been
lifted, the central bank says.
The detailed list of new mea-
sures includes:
• Israeli citizens in receipt of
reparations from Germany or for-
eign pensions may now invest
them in foreign bank accounts.
This relaxation is not being
retroactively applied.
• Institutional investors ( 15 .
provident funds and mutual funds)
may use the services of a foreign
broker to oversee financial trans-
actions overseas. Until now such
deals only have been permissible
via a domestic commercial bank.
• The limit on provident fund
investments abroad has been
raised from two percent of their
total assets to 5%.
• Mutual funds that do not spe-
cialize in foreign investments may
now place up to 504b of their
assets abroad, as opposed to the
10% permissible to date. This
brings these funds in line with
their specialist equivalents.
- Israeli companies now may
hold foreign securities and curren-
cy received for exports in overseas
banks worth 15% of total sales or
25% of paid-up capital, whichever
is the larger sum. This replaces the
previous sums of 5% of sales and
10% of capital.
* Israelis may now deal in
futures abroad for any purpose.
Companies (excluding insurers)
are permitted to do this via a for-
eign broker. Until now companies
could only trade in futures ro
hedge risks stemming from import
and export deals, and deposits,
loans, and possessions of foreign
securities.
satellite are Hughes Space
Co m munications International
Lockheed Martin Missiles & Sp-
and Loral Space Systems, aH of 1
- US; arid Matra Marconi Space;
Alcatel baft of France. _
■ An IAI executive said hb compa-
ny is offering the Amos HP [higi
power] sateHite, estimated to dost
between $120 million and $I30m.
The Amos HP is a smaller satellite
than any of the other competitors,
with the exception of the HS-376
offered by Hughes, tee executive
said. The Hughes satellite is esti-
mated to cost $250 million.
"T am sure that they will choose a
small satellite,” the IAI executive
said. "They have asked us for a
comprehensive proposal”
The industry sounds said iAJTs
chief competitor appears to the
Hughes HP-376. Urey said Israeli
executives have presented data teat
show that die Amos HP is mere
powerful than the Hughes system.
The sources said the key to win-
ning tiie Vietnam contract depends
on whether that country win (fecfde
to buy a small and inexpensive satisf- .
Kte. “The min ute they decide to go to
a bigger satellite, Israel is out of tbe
picture,” an industry source said. ;
Ben-Gurion traffic rises
13% during May-June
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Airport during May and June.
“The increase in May and June
is almost certainly that of Israelis
going abroad and not tourists,”
said Avi Rosental. director of the
Hotel Association. “During the
first half of 1997, there was a
drop of 13 percent in the number
of tourists coming to Israel.”
The figures are especially sig-
nificant in light of the fact that
airlines which specialize in car-
rying Israelis abroad showed the
largest gains.
Turkish Airlines, whose pas-
senger load consists almost
exclusively of Israelis vacation-
ing in Turkey, led the foreign air-
lines in tee number of passengers
with 53,334. an increase of 20
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year.
In second place was Lufthansa,
with 44,539, 16 percent more
than during May and June of
j 996. Lufthansa spokesman
Yitzhak Zaroni, said that during
the first half of 1997, there was a
drop of 25 percent in the number
of German tourists coming to
Israel while at tee same time, the
airline reported an increase of
12.2 percent in tee number of
passengers during the first six
months of tee year.
El A1 and its subsidiary, Sundor,
carried 471,131 passengers during
the two-month period and showed
a 14 percent jump in tee number
of passengers carried. Company
spokesman Nachman Kleinian
said that the number represented
for the most part, Israelis travel-
ling abroad, although it did
include some tour groups. The
increase in the number of Israelis
flying El A1 abroad came as a wel-
come surprise to the company,
which had looked forward to a
bleak summer season.
Even more impressive was the
performance of Arkia, which
showed a 21 percent jump in the
number of passengers carried in
comparison with tee same two
months of 1996.
Patah (foreign currency deposit rates) (11.9^6)
3 MONTHS 8*q>rn« - iz M onths *
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CHECKSAND . -
transfers
Buy Sell
3.8258
3.5512
1.8770
5.9508
0.5840
3.0621
1.7585
2.4006
0.4573
04784
05182
0.6695
25865
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U.S.
Germsi marie
Pound starting
Hench franc
Japanese van (100)
Dutch florin
Swiss franc
Swedish krona
Norwegian krone
Danish krone
Finnish marie
Canadian dollar
AusWIan dollar
S. African rand
Belgian francEi 0)
Austrian achHing (10)
Italian lbs (1000)
Jordanian dinar
i pound
Irish punt
Spanish peseta (100)
3.7650
3.4848
1.9456
5.8563
0.5756
3.0134
1.7886
£3624
0.4500
04708
0.5109
0.6588
25455
25940
0.7638
0.9423
2.7659
1.9978
49292
05900
3.8309
52282
25086
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Over-the-counter remedy
Asia is looking to Taiwan for a Nasdaq exchange of its own
By ALICE HUHQ
. TAIPEI r. Taiwan’s fledgling
over-the-counter stock market has
big aHibitions - it looks to the
Nasdaq as a role model and hopes
someday to surpass the giant high-
tech US exchange.
Given the securities exchange's
blazing growth in recent years “the
gbaT is'not completely out of reach.
Before the OTC exchange inau-
gurated Va. computerized trading
system in 1994, it comprised a
mere. I L listings mired in a backwa-
ter of illiquidity, with average daily
turnover; of just T$2 million (US
$71,600),
Today, the eight-year-old OTC
has 96 listed companies.
Turnover averages well over
T330b.,($358m.).
That's five times Japan’s over-
the-counter- turnover and rivals
some of the world's major national
exchanges,' though it is only a tenth
of Taiwan's main exchange, where
daily, turnover regularly tops
T$200b.<$7.2b.)
The QTCs turnover hit a record
T$20b- ($716mj several times in
July. pTC markei capitalization has
soared .lo T$Z70b. ($9.68b.; from a
punyT$4.2b. ($15 1 m.) in 1994.
“I believe such stunning growth
is second to none in the world. The
record is unprecedented,” says
Chao Hsiao-feng, chairman of the
Taiwan Over-ihe-Counter
Securities Exchange.
"This is a young market with
unlimited upside potential.” Chao
told Reuters in a recent interview.
MOTORING
Chao said that such potential, lies
mamly with the island's hundreds,
perhaps thousands, of promising but
link-known electronics firms - the
hottest sector in Taiwan’s economy.
As the government vows to turn
a "technology island.”
the OTC aims to become a Nasdaq-
style exchange that actively fosters
futuristic high-technology develop-
ment. r
Fe ^r than one-third of OTC-
Iisted turns now are in the electron-
tes business, but Chao is confident
that high-tech listings will expand
rapidly.
By the end of _
1997, around 150 XRADIN
firms - many in
the electronics
sector - will be
traded in the OTC,
with a further 110
firms being
screened for listings, he added.
"Our people make door-to-door
calls to small and medium compa-
nies. especially high-technology
ones, around the island to encour-
age their interest in listing on (he
OTC," Chao said.
“Maybe one day what now is a
little-known small company will
grow and prosper in the OTC mar-
ket - just like Microsoft did in the
Nasdaq,” Chao said.
“One day, we hope our exchange
can surpass Nasdaq," said Allan
Huang, fimd manager for Thi wan’s
first OTC- only closed-end fund.
Huang believes tlx? exchange is
heading in the right direction.
"We think it’s the right approach
to follow the Nasdaq model and
make the OTC market the cradle of
Taiwan's high-technology firms,”
said Huang, of Taiwan’s Foremost
Investment Services.
“Ih the future, electronics will be
the dominant sector in the OTC
market, replacing securities and
banking shares. Once this becomes
the case, it will significantly boost
the interest of foreign investors,”
Huang said.
Until now, foreign investors have
shown limited interest in Taiwan's
junior market, seen by foreign hind
managers as
Trading Floors
Taiwan's big
exchange - and
therefore vul-
nerable to
manipulation.
Analysis esti-
mate that the 07X1 exchange has
attracted less than four percent, or
about T$IOb. ( S358m .), of foreign-
ers' total Taiwan stock investments.
"Illiquidity has been a main con-
cern." said Oliver Fang, head of
institutional sales at National
Securities.
"Professional foreign institutions
normally have a standard evalua-
tion formula to help them make
investment decisions. When they
apply the formula to companies in
Taiwan’s OTC, not many qualify,”
Fang said. "Many are loo small and
can be manipulated easily.”
Companies that a re capitalized at
as little as T$50m. ($ 1.79m.) and
show even modest profitability are
eligible to apply for OTC listing.
By contrast, the main stock
exchange requires capitalization of
T$200itl ($7. 17m.) for main-board
high-tech shares and T$300m.
($ 1 0.75m.) for others.
Chairman Chao counters that
small firms, too, can have sound
financials and says his exchange
uses strict criteria to ensure no lag-
gards qualify. What's more, he
said, small companies have far
greater potential to grow compared
to big firms.
"We believe a company's perfor-
mance depends not on its size, but
on whether its structure is healthy
and solid,” he said.
In the OTC's brief history, only
one company, Cheng- 1 Food, was
forced to suspend trading due to
financial difficulties. -
“Cheng-I was a rare case,” Chao
added.
Rules enacted in July allow the
market to downgrade troubled
firms before delisting them, molli-
fying critics who had said its old,
instant-delisting rule was unfair to
investors and a barrier to healthy
development.
Huang of Foremost said he
expected more institutional
investors - foreign ami domestic
alike - to participate in the OTC
to tap the market's rapid expan-
sion.
“With markei scale expanding
and liquidity increasing, the long-
term profit outlook in the OTC
marker is very, very promising,"
Huang said.
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Model obsession
♦ People ♦
B) GK!-!:K Fav (.'ashman
Businessman and community leader 1st LeBbler
(above), who after last week’s Maccabiah tragedy
loomed tall as Australian Jewry’s chief spokesperson,
has sold his multimill ion-dollar Jetset Travel network
to New Zealand Air. This will leave him free to spend
most of his time in Israel, Leibler said in Jerusalem
last week. Leibler, who is chairman of the Governing
Board of the World Jewish Congress and past presi-
dent of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry,
plans to spend al least nine months a year in Israel
and will devote himself primarily to educational
endeavors. An ardent advocate for Jewish education,
Leibler is one of the prime investors in Judaica
Multimedia Israel Ltd., which has produced the CD-
Rom edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica.
Qin Ke Chen will serve as the bureau chief in Israel
for the prestigious Chinese daily Guang Ming , which
is the first Chinese newspaper to be represented here.
Xinhua, the Chinese news agency, has been operat-
ing locally for over a year, and there is talk that
Chinese Radio will also open an office in Israel.
Veteran textile manufacturer Yah* Rotlevi, 63, has
been elected chairman of the Textile and Fashion
division of the Israel Manufacturers Association
(IMA). He replaces Dedi Lederman, who has com-
pleted a two-year term. Rotlevi is the managing
director and chairman of the board of Lodzia Rotex
and chairman of the board of Argaman Industries. In
the past, he served as chairman of the board of the
Postal Authority and as a member of the TelAviv
Municipal Council, where he chaired the economics
committee. At the IMA, be headed the economics
and taxes committee and chaired the supervisory
committee.
Moshe Baks, 28, has been appointed professional
manager of Super-Push, a company that focuses on
marketing campaigns and sales promotions through
special events. He previously worked in theTfel Aviv
Municipality's events department.
Raphael Cohen is the new bead of the Interior
Ministry’s Population Administration, replacing
Yosef Thv, who has retired after 47 years as a civi
servant. Cohen previously served as a senior advi
sor to the Interior Minister. Tuv, who jollied the
Ministry on July 1, 1949, started as an information
clerk and worked his way up to senior positions. In
1967, he headed the move to provide ED cards for
the residents of East Jerusalem. He also opened the
first population administration office in Judea and '
Samaria. At the changing of the guard ceremony.
Interior Minister Eli Siussa lauded Tuv’s lasting
contributions to the way in which the administration
functions.
The Bank of Israel has announced that Danny
Yariv. deputy manager of the bank's roooetaiy
department, has been appointed the Israel represen-
tative on the team that is establishing a regional
bank in Cairo.
David Blumberg has succeeded Ya’acov Liishitz
as chairman of the Israel Foreign Trade Risk
Insurance Corporation. Lifshitz, 52, who holds a
business management degree from the Hebrew
University, has held several senior positions in
banking and finance organizations. He is currently
chairman of the board of directors and chairman of
the management committee of the Bank of
Jerusalem. Blumberg’s previous appointments have
included general manager of Bank Mizrahi, general
manager of Bank Tefahot and a member of tire advi-
sory committee to the Bank of Israel. He also sits on
tire governing boards of several public institutions
and institutions of higher learning.
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By JOELGORDM
L ast week, Kobi Warshai of
Tel Aviv, purchased a brand-
new BMW.
For, many months he had been
undecided about whether to get the
BMW, a Feud Mustang or a Volvo,
but iiitire.end he chow tire BMW
becatifie^its finish is better” He
pfOu4x'bni>ught his new car home
to show his wife and three children.
Then.he carefully wiped it down
and placed it in his display cabinet,
alongside the rest of his collection
of 1,500 model automobiles.
Warshai, 47, is one of the coun-
try’s leading collectors of scale-
model -automobiles. He is the
chairman of the Israel Model
Automobile Collectors Club - a
body that received a boost in
recent years from the aliya from
the fonjner. Soviet Union.
Warshai and his fellow collectors'
are not simply Peter Pan-like
schoolboys who never grew up.
There an; tremendous investment
possibilities for the wise collector of
model automobiles. Some models
increase in value in the same way as
rare paintings. For example, a
British-made "Dinky Toy" model of
a vehicle from tire 1940s car 1950s
could be. purchased in those days for
a few shillings (less than a dollar).
Today ihe--same model in good con-
dition can fetch more than $ 1 ,000.
Warshai was bom in Tel Aviv in
1950 into what he calls a bour-
geoisie family. He still runs his fam-
ily suitcase shop in the city center.
“As a boy I was always receiving
gifts of model automobiles from
family -and friends,” Warshai
remembers. "Some children are nat-
ural collectors, and I built up a huge
collection of model cars, many of
them original Dinky and Matchbox
toys that flooded die country as a
result of the British influence. If I
had kept my original collection I
would be a wealthy man today.
However, most of it disappeared
when 1 went to the army, moved
houses and married. I also devel-
oped a new hobby, building model
aircraft
About 15 years ago, my eldest
son become interested in building
aircraft and a child psychologist
told me it would not be good for me
to compete with my son. I looked
for a new hobby, and I returned to
collecting model automobiles.”
At that time, recalls Warshai, there
were very few genuine models in
the countiy, only toys. He wrote for
catalogs to the world-famous com-
panies - Corgi and Matchbox of the
UK (Dinky by this time had closed
down), Burago and Rio of Italy.
Shabak and Gama and Scbuco of
Germany. He soon discovered that
that the fleets of each company were
so vast he should specialize in one
field He chose buses, and today he
has one of the finest collections of
scale-model buses in the world, val-
ued at more than $50,000.
“There are collectors who spe-
cialize in racing cars, in cabs, in
American-made 1950s cars, in
Volkswagen Beetles and in
Ferrari s," he explains. “I concen-
trate on buses, although I do often
buy other vehicles, hence my
recent purchase of the BMW.”
Warshai 's bus collection includes
not only London double-deckers
and US school buses, but 1940s and
1 950s Egged buses produced by the
now defunct Gamda toy company
at Kibbutz Beit Hanassi in the
Upper Galilee. He also has a num-
ber of Russian buses that he claims
are extremely well-made vehicles.
“Soon after the major influx of the
Russian aliya in 1991-92, 1 started
inspecting the wares at street mar-
kets, and I found some terrific scale
models of all types that the olim had
broughL with them. Apparently the
hobby was highly developed in the
former Soviet Union.
“At that time, says Warshai.
“there were only about 20 serious
local collectors, and we had
formed a rudimentary, makeshift
club. At any rate, I advertised in
the local Russian-language press
and attracted about 60 former res-
idents of the USSR to a meeting.
We formed the Israel Model
Automobile Collectors Cub.”
The club meets once a month
and the members exchange infor-
mation and catalogs and bring
models to swap, "just like eager
schoolboys in a playground,"
according to Warshai. Most impor-
tantly, the club can order in bulk
from the world's model manufac-
turers and thus obtain better prices
and service. “The former Russian
collectors are in heaven in Israel,”
says Warshai- "In their old country,
they were confined to collecting
Russian-made models. Now, they
have the run of all the major 400
companies, which make top-quali-
ty stale models of vehicles ranging
mom ambulances to tanks to com-
mercial trucks to motor scooters.”
How can would-be collectors
tell the difference between a toy
and a genuine scale model? First
of all, says Warshai, by the name
of the company. The most famous
maker of scale-model cars was the
UK's Dinky, which started pro-
duction in 1937 and closed down
about 20 years later. At least six
Chinese- and Hong Kong-based
firms are now called “Dinky" and
one should beware of imitations,
warns Warshai. In the meantime.
Dinky’s place at the top has been
overtaken by Italy's Burago,
Japan's Kyosho. Italy's Rio and
many others. The Israel Model
Automobile Collectors Club can
supply lists of the top manufactur-
ers.
The best buys, says Warshai, are
the so-called "limited edition"
models that have a certificate of
authenticity in the box. The most
popular and sought-after scale is
1:43. Warshai emphasizes the
importance of keeping models in
good condition.
"A small scratch can make the
difference between a few hundred!
dollars when it conies to selling
the model.” If possible, continues
Warshai, the model should be kept
either in its original box or else in
a protected display cabinet.
A spin-off industry of display
cabinets for model cars has devel-
oped, and these accessories are
advertised in magazines and cata-
logs, Even if the cars are taken out
of the packing, the original boxes
should be preserved, says Warshai.
“This adds to the car’s value.”
Warshai concludes: ’’Even
though collecting model cars is a
secure investment, the majority of
collectors indulge in the hobby for
fun and not for money.
“Some adult collectors may feel
slightly embarrassed about their
hobby. The importance of belong-
ing to a club is that you realize that
you are not a freak or an over-
grown child. There are about four-
million serious collectors through-
out the world.”
He adds with a grin, “Model-auto
collecting is a respected pan of the
motoring culture. In Israel, at least,
it is safer than actually driving.”
Warshai can be contacted at
(03) 605-7616 .
Streets ah
T he . popular BBC television program Top
Gear recently held a nationwide survey in
the UK to determine the “best automobile
buV of the year.” The survey was held among
the, general population, not among the
magazin e’s readers. In otter words,
the voters were ”99 percent the
type of motorists who oiuy
want to get safely from
A to B and one per-
cent driving fans,
according to the
program’s pre-
senter, jovial
Jeremy Clarkson.
The Toyota
Corolla won the
poll streets ahead of
the opposition- This
did not surprise any
one - in most countries,
rtis haled by mechanics for its .
everybody. <h»gh. - jj
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COHOL LA.
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Gear once pronounced it ^bont ^ . . i
as exciting as an income rax foon. > •
The people at Toyota are perfectirausts^nd
have made many attempts to gpt nd oftiiea
“duB" image. For example, $ouped-np Corollas
have been entered in numerous rally nd.nicng
contests. The Corollas have.dottewell
contests, but the boring image dMUMk
oaHvScenwated by the more ted-btood^d ..
' motoring' magazines. Neverthetess, Toyora;
keeps plugging away to acquire a more
exciting sheen.
The 1998 Corolla (hat went into
local showrooms last week has
been given a stylish, innova-
tive design. The from grille,
honeycombed with holes,
\ resembles a gigantic,
aluminum piece of
Swiss cheese. The
headlamps are small
and round, tike those
an UK-made sports
cars of the ’60s.
The rear lights are
also ultra-trendy.
Regardless of its
appearance or driving
performance, the Corolla
has never been a best-
selling car in Israel
because, in our price-conscious market, it is
priced above similar Japanese-made 1 ,600cc
family- cars.
•' The new Corolla is no exception: the ver-
sions available range from a four-door, man-
ual-shift salon costing N1S 83,900 to a five-
door automatic-shift station wagon at NIS
99.000. AU models have the l397cc. 111
horsepower engine of the old Corolla. Two
. -front' airbags and ABS brakes are standard
' equipnienton all models. — /.G.
I nternationa] business tycoon and philan-
thropist Jack Liberman, who bad major
investments in Israel, died last week at the age
of 74 in Melbourne, Australia, where he had
consistently been listed among the wealthiest
200 people on the island continent Liberman
suffered from Alzheimer's disease for the past
four years. Bom in Poland, Liberman and his
family fled to Russia during World War EL
and in 1948, migrated to Australia, where he
initially dealt in scrap metal. As his fortune
grew, he began investing in textiles, food and
real estate. His sons Boris and Leon later
joined him in the business. In 1992, Leon, his
wife, Lee, and their three children moved to
Jaffa to oversee the family's Israeli interests
which included Paz Petrochemicals. A year
later, on a visit back to Australia, where he
was being treated for heart trouble, Leon col-
lapsed and died at age 45. The Libermtui
empire, comprised of huge real-estate hold-
ings, supermarkets, pharmaceuticals, bakeries
and car-import agencies, extended from
Australia to Europe. Israel and the US.
♦ The Conference Circuit
H The Third Inter-
4wO» / national Conference
on Jewish Onomastics (the study
of names) will open at Bar-Ilan
University on July 28 and on July
30 will join forces with the 12th
World Congress of Jewish
Studies at the Hebrew Ltaiversity.
Mount Scopus. Conference speak-
ers will discuss the preservation
and changes of Jewish names from
antiquity till the present in Israel
and the lands of Jewish dispersion.
^ How individual compa-
juO* / nies will be affected by
policy changes on the rate of
exchange and the liberalization of
foreign-currency regulations will
be die subject of a conference orga-
nized by the Israel Manufacturers
Association, the Israel Export
Institute and the First International
Bank. The venue is the Mosbevic
Hall at IMA headquarters, 16th
floor. Industry House, 29 Hamered
Street, Tel Aviv. To register, call
(03)514-2808.
The New Reality of
Palestinian-Israeii
Relations will be discussed at a
late-aftemoon seminar coordinat-
ed by the Jaffee Center for
Strategic Studies and the Israel
Friends of the Tel Aviv
University. The event will be held
in the Cohen-Porter Building on
the TAU campus. Speakers
include Dr. Mark Heller, senior
Jaffee researcher; Dr. Khalid
By Greer Fay C ashman
Shikaki, director of the Center for
Palestinian Research and Studies,
Nablus; Maj. Gen. (res.) Dan
Rothchild, former coordinator of
the Government’s Activities in the
Territories and Yechiel Leiter,
executive director of the Yesha
Council’s Foreign Desk.
^ State Comptroller
Jit / Miriam Ben-Porat will
open the Jewish Law Seminar on
Creating Wealth, which is being
held at the Holyland Hotel,
Jerusalem. The three-day seminar,
under the aegis of the Justice
Ministry, will focus on reclaiming
debts and the haves and have nots
of assuming a friend’s debts.
Speakers will include retired
Supreme Court judges Dov Levin
and Zvi Tal; Prof. Irwin Coder of
McGill University, Prof. Menahem
Ben-Sasson, rector of the Hebrew
University Prof. Nahum Rackover,
deputy legal advisor to the govern-
ment; Judge Gershon Gorman;
attorney Aviad Hacohen and MK
Shaul Yahalom, chairman of die
Knesset’s Law and Constitution
Committee. To register, call (02)
670-8552.
/ 3*| *7 The Founding
/ Conference of the
Center for Middle East
Competitive Strategy, organized
in conjunction with the Ministry of
Industry and Trade and the Israel
Manufacturers Association, will
take place at the Dan Panorama
Convention Center, Tel Aviv, in the
presence of Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu. Participants
will include Minister of Industry
and Trade Natan Sharansky,
Finance Minister Ya’acov
Ne’eman, IMA President Dan
Propper, Palestinian Authority
Planning Minister Nabil Shaath
and CMECS President Dr. YigaJ
Weinberg. The conference will
focus on a competitive strategy for
Israeli and Middle East industry.
To register, call (03) 510-4441.
'I "t yf Liberalization In
/ Foreign Currency and
the Changing Exchange Rate is
the topic of a yet another confer-
ence, this one sponsored by
Ma’ariv Congresses at Gan
Oranim. Senior banking and
investment managers will be
among the speakers.
C Q Medparlenariat, the
annual business part-
nership conference to encourage
joint ventures and partnerships
between medical product compa-
nies in Europe and the Middle
East, will take place in Tlunis this
year. Some 300 Tlinisian compa-
nies, plus 800 companies from
some 25 other countries, are
expected to participate in the two-
day conference. Representatives of
Israeli companies who wish to
attend should contact Mickey
Admon at the Israel Export
Institute, (03) 5 1 4-2809.
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SiP COMSTOCK (DATE22-vlUL-07)
'In kxal currencies
TASE ROUNDUP
3jii
Mishtanim
295.48 ▲ +0.29%
By BOBEBT PANEL
Israeli stock indexes rose, led by
Koor Industries Ltd, after stores
in the holding company traded
outside the stock exchange at
more than its current price.
Koor shares were the most
active issue, jumping 6.25 percent
to 391.46 shekels (5111.08) cm
trading of 26.9 million shekels.
Key Representative
US Doflar NfS 3.5240 -023%
Sterling N1S 09064 - 008%
Marie J41S 1.9651 -022%
NEW YORK MARKET INDEXES
Lett Change
OTHER MARKET INDEXES
; .' i h t h ‘ i
DOLLAR CROSSRATES (US)
US COMMODITIES
[.TT | '_ |T^’V;VT
LONDON COMMODITIES
SPOT MARKET METALS (US)
NEW YORK METAL FUTURES
LONDON METAL FIXES
bra* free. M oBm an dosing quotesj
SOURCE: SAP COMSTOCK (DATE22-JUL-07)
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Also lifting the marker were Tcva
Phanuaceodcal Industries Ltd., up
1.75% to 230.95, and some of
Israel's major chemicals produc-
ers.
Losing ground were Bezeq Ltd,
the state-controlled telecommuni-
cations company, which is beset
by a strike; Bank Leu mi, and
defense contractor Elbit Systems
Ltd. Falling shares exceeded gain-
ing issues 280 to 255 across the
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
“Koor is the reason the market
rose today,” said Rouen Cohen,
analyst at Oscar Gruss & Son.
“The Koor deal is flooding opti-
mism into the market,** said Eli
Nahum, head trader at Zaun ex
Securities -in Raznat Gan. “The.
large transaction strengthens die
focus on the Israeli market"
Nahum also said that the strength-
ening of the shekel Friday - to
3332 against the U.S. dollar from -
Maof
302.30 ▲ +0.38%
3.552 on Thursday
investors’ concern about
and higher mtercst rates.
shekel strengthened again todai,
to 3.524. The Maof Index of ^
most-traded issues rose . 038% »
3023. The Mishtanim Index df
100 issues added 0.29% id 295:48.
Across ^the exchange, 1493 : rii3-
lion shekels ($42.4 million) .6f
shares traded.
An umdeotified foreign mvesmr.
paid $30 million for a 2% stake m
Koor, Israel’s largest holding com-
pany, Israeli papers reported. ' £
Koor Shares Pension funds jbf
iBank Hapoalim Ltd and Baflk
Leurai le- Israel Ltd. sold Kofcr
shares at 416 shekels - ($117/7^1,.
about 16% more than Thursd^S
closing price on the Tel Aviv Stock
Exchange, the paper smd ;
Investors are speculating t£ar
another transaction m Koor shases
was executed today, Nahum said j
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JERUSALEM
Conducted Tours
HEBREW UNIVERSITY. Tours Of the
Mount Scopus campus, in Englsh,
day Sun.-Thur, 11 sun. from
Bronfman Reception Center, Sherman
Administration Bldg. Buses 4a, 8, 23,
28, 28. For info, cat 5882819.
HADASSAK Visit the Hadassah instal-
lations, Chagall Windows. TeL 02-
8416333, 02-6776271.
TEL AVIV
Museums
TEL AVIV MUSEUM. Andres Serrano:
The Mo/gpe. Soviet Photogri^ihy front
the Museum coSaction. UxsaiYfreuct
: selection of wodc^T^ HerrioEr, , '
Sunflower. Porirafts: By a groupof
fsraeS artists. Vlrluat Reality: Tne
dommtic and reaSsticln cbniernpocan
Israet art. HELENA RUBINSTBN
WWUON for cowtemporary
ART. »ilomo Ben-Oavid and Amon/
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Aussie Glick tops Zimbabwe’s Treger in bowls
■ >■ By HORMAN SPIRO
In the men’s singles 8-rounds lawn bowls
round robin competition, Australia's Pepe
Glick won all his three games, although very
narrowly (25-24), against Zimbabwe's Ruvyn
Tregbr, collecting three shots on the last end
for a thrilling finish.
South Africa's Dannie Keet and Okkie Fine
each won three of four games - as did Israel's
Jeff Rabkin and George Kaminsky, the I alter
coming through to beat England's Bennie
Wainstein 25-24, after trailing 1 6-5.
In the women’s singles, Chaya Prager of
Israel made a great stand winning all three
games.
With three rounds completed in the men's
fours, the only unbeaten side is Australia (Rod
Davis). Mackie Glasser's South African team
won two of their three games, with two wins on
the last end. Raymond Sher's team (Israel) did
well to win two games, losing one by one shot
to Glasser.
In the women’s fours, Molly Skudowitz
(Israel) and Avis Lampert (South Africa) have
each won one game and peeled one, while
Australia’s Denese Brick peeled both games,
the last one with a last bowl against
Skudowitz's side.
Today’s Maccabiah schedule
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Results
Golf League A (men): 1. G.
Peled, Britain (148) 2. Jason
Lipschitz, South Africa (15 1 ) 3. G.
Bloomfeld, USA and David
Shalom (152). Women: 1. Sandy
Lambert, Britain (155) 2. Sheila
GOoa, Israel (157) 3. Jennifer
Minfetwitz, Sweden (163).' '
Basketball women Israel 62,
Hungary 45.
Wresting freestyle 54 kg 1.
Lindsey Duriacher, USA 2. Pavel
Sinyaysky. Israel 3. Marcelo
Melamed, Australia. 58 kg. 1.
Michael Freedman, USA 2. Igor
Blit, Russia 3. Valery Megiiov,
Israel 65 kg 1. Scott Schatzrnan,
USA 2. Jeremy Podlog. Canada 3.
Eugene Pugatchevsky, Israel 69
kg Alan Fried, USA 2. Russell
Mirny,. Australia 3. Igor
Lederman, Israel. 76 kg 1. Jeffrey
Liebehnan. USA 2. Tgor
Prapojshcbikov, Australia 3.
Amihai Tsarfati, Canada 85 kg
Rostislav Isenberg, Israel 2. Adam
Mariano, USA 3. Alexandre
Chiffine, Russia 97 kg 1. Johy
Matile, ; Canada 2. Robert
Pritchett, USA 3. Ran Kalikman,
Israel. 125 kg 1. Oleg Ladik.
Canada 2. Zachary Feldman, USA
3. Moasour Galimov, Russia.
Mini Soccer Brazil 2, Great
Britain 1.
Soccer Colombia 6. Turkey 3.
Swimming Men 100m
freestyle Y. Brack, Israel 51.30
sec. 2. 0. Azrad, Israel 51.91. 3. A
Kurmakov, USA 52.13. 200m
breastrofee J. Weiss, USA 2:16.71
rain. 2. V. Alexsev, Israel 2:22.32.
3. A Clapper, USA 2:05.05. 200m
butterfly 1. M. Sommerffeld,
Israel 2:03.54. 2. Y Meiri. Israel
2:03.66. 3. D. Gelber, USA
2:05.05. Women 100m freestyle
1. A Gostomelsky, Israel 58.49
sec. 2. 1. Kavadlo, USA 58.85. 3/
S. Werner, Canada 1:00.15 200m
backstroke L. Kastuiel, Israel
2:26.26 min. 2. M. Rabinovich,
Israel 2:28.29. 3. L, Dubbe, USA
2:29.81. 200m butterfly 1. C.
Harrison, Canada 2:2055 min. 2.
D. Baron, USA 2:25.45. 3. R.
Johnson, USA 2:23.12. 200m
breastroke 1. A. Cohen, USA,
2:41.30 min. 2. L. Merxnelstein.
Israel 2:43.43. 3. S. Olivadoti -
USA 2‘44v24v
Volleyball - men Brazil 3, USA
2,
Badminton Bet Dani: 14:00
finals.
Basketball (men) Jerusalem,
Malha: 19:00, 21:00 semifinals.
Wingate: 17:00, 21:00 semifinals.
Basketball (women) Wingate:
19:00 finals.
Bridge Jerusalem Gate Hotel:
10:00, 13:00, 15:20, and 21:00
finals.
Chess Jerusalem Gate Hotel:
15:00 round 8. 15:00 round 7
(open).
Cricket Ashdod: 10:00 S.
Africa-Australia.
Fencing Hadar Yosef: 10:00
preliminaries, 16:00 finals (W),
1 7:00 finals (M).
Field Hockey - men Hadar
Yosef: 09:00 Australia-Great
Britain, 16:00 The Netherlands-
Israel.
Field hockey - women Hadar
Yosef: 07:30 Israel -S. Africa.
Golf Caesarea: from 08:00.
Handball Wingate: 20:00 finals.
Mini Soccer Yad Eliyahu: 16:00
7th-8th place, 17:30 5tb-6th place,
19:00 3rd-4th place, 20:30 finals.
Netball Herzliya (Makif
School): 18:00 3rd and 4* place.
19:30 finals.
Rugby Herzliya: 17:00 7th-8th
place, 18:30 5th-6th place. 20:00
3rd-4th place, 21:00 finals.
Soccer Bat Yam: 19:00 and
21:00 semifinals.
Softball Kibutz Gezen 15:00
Canada-Mexico final (first game
of best-of-three); 18:00 bronze
medal, Israel-USA: 21:00 final
(game 2>.
Squash Herzliya: from 09:00
semifinals.
Swimming Tel Aviv University:
from 19:00.
Table Tennis Ber HaJohera:
from 09:00 and from 15:45.
Tennis from 09:00 quarterfinals
(M/W), from 16:00 semifinals
(M/W), from 18:00 mixed pairs.
Ten-Pin Bowling Rishon
Lezion: 11:00 and 12:00.
Volleyball (men) Kfar Sava
(Katzebielson High School):
■20:30 .finals.
Maccabiah Hotline: 03-671-5999
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: Correction; Yoav Gat on
Sunday set: die Israeli 200-
jneter backstroke: record of
2^B.14and not as stated. •
Jerusalem march
to precede
closing ceremony
atLatrun
Five border policemen who
excelled in the rescue operation of
the Australian delegation under
the collapsed bridge before the
opening ceremony will lead the
Maccabiah delegations in
Jerusalem on Thursday in a march,
which will begin at 16:30 from
Safra Square. Following this, the
delegations mil travel to Lamm
for the closing ceremony which
will begin at 20:30.
A website has been put up
allowing members of the public to
express their support for the
Australian The address is
http://www.atwww.com.au/mac-
cabi. Already over 500 messages
of support have been receivedso
far.
Youth soccer team
leaves for Iceland
The national youth soccer team
left for Iceland yesterday to com-
pete in their first-ever European
Championship finals.
In other news, Bnei Yehuda s
Alon Mizrahi is in serious negoti-
ations with Switzerland’s FC
Basel and Betar Jerusalem’s
David Amsalem has been in talks
with Premier League side West
Ham. Derek Fatial
SCOREBOARD
Tbur de France - Marco Pantam
won the 15th stage yesterday.
Germany's Jan Ullrich retains the
overall lead.
Israel takes
6 taekwando golds
By JQHATHAH TEPPEBMAH
They might have been the heaviest hitters, but the
heavyweight finalists failed to make much impact last
night on the crowd gathered in Jerusalem's Malha
Hall for the Maccabiah 's first-ever taekwando com-
petition.
In stead, the show was stolen by the female com-
petitors fighting earlier in the day and by the demon-
stration events staged by die Israeli team. In fact, it
was the Israelis who dominated the day-long tourna-
ment from start to finish, winning 6 gold medals —
much to their own surprise.
According to Ky Tu, the Danish black-belt who
has adopted the Israeli team and has become its
coach, the most Israel had hoped for was four spots
in the finals. But the Israelis, fighting on their home
turf and watched over by an all-Israeli crew of ref-
erees and judges, simply overwhelmed the compe-
tition. Despite a strong showing by the Australian
combatants, Israeli women took home four golds
and their male counterparts two - a record so good
that some of the other teams left grumbling about
biased judging.
The much anticipated final event, the fight for
heavyweight gold, came down to George Weissfish
of the US and Michel Mallut of France. The lamer - a
World and Europe middleweight champion - was the
clear favorite. Once on the mat, however, be found
himself unable to penetrate the much greater reach of
the American.
To the crowd's disappointment, there was little con-
tact throughout. The match amounted to nine lacklus-
ter minutes as the athletes cautiously circled each
other. No blows were landed during the first of three,
three-minute rounds. During the second, however,
Weissfish struck the Frenchman with a solid round-
kick and repeated this feat in the third. Mallul man-
aged to land a single cut-kick of his own, but earned
a blow to the throat while trying to catch one of
Weissfish 's legs.
By the end of the fight, the score was 2-1, but was
lowered to 0-0 owing to penalties on both sides. After
a lengthy conference, the judges picked Weissfish as
a better all-around fighter and gave him the gold.
And so it was the earlier events which remained the
day's most dramatic. Especially popular was the
demonstration staged by the Israeli exhibition team.
As the theme from Rocky pumped over the loud-
speakers, die Israelis performed a variety of stupts,
including fight-acrobatics and the inevitable board-
breaking. For their finale, the Israeli coaches smashed
random objects - including a huge ceramic urn and a
beer bottle - on and with each other's bodies.
Speaking after the competition. Eui Yong Chung,
Korea’s ambassador to Israel, thanked the athletes
and Israel for making the Korean national sport a part
of the Maccabiah. He gave a special salute to the
large Australian contingent, as did the other speakers
throughout the awards ceremony, and joined the
crowd in a moment of silence.
Canada to face
Mexico in
softball finals
By ELI P1NCH0VSK1
aid RICHARD DUFFY
Canada earned itself a place in
the softball finals by beating the
USA 7-1 at Kibbutz Gezer last
night.
The Canadians will now face
Mexico in a best-of-three final
beginning today at 15:00.
"Hie game was scoreless until
the fifth inning when Canada
took the lead with a clutch hit by
pinch hitter Steve Kushner,
scoring two runs.
In the next frame, Canada
exploded five more times featur-
ing a bases-loaded triple by
Ricky Green.
Canada’s Mark Benda han
framed nine, giving up no
earned runs.
The USA scored in the bottom
of the sixth with a base hit plus
an error. .
Workhorse David Blackburn,,
took the loss for the USA.
Goldberg siblings
reach squash semis
By HEATHER CHA1T
Local players Ronen Goldberg
and his sister Jackie reached die
semifinals of the men and
women’s squash event yesterday,
a sport widely associated with
Anglo-Saxons.
National champion Ronen beat
Sean Mann (South Africa) 3-0 and
Jackie beat Leanne Sher (US) 3-2
in their quarter-final matches.
The other three names left in the
men’s open division are Daniel
Ezra (UK) who put out Yair Feld
3-0. Gram Isaacs (SA) who
defeated Saar Justmaa 3-2 and
Amir Kivon who beat Isaac Rome
3-0.
In the women’s division, Lee
Trevis ousted Dafna Wegner 3-1,
Vivien Weiner (Australia) beat
Susan Green (US) 3-1 and
Jacqueline Vadja (Australia)
topped Ivy Pochoda (US) 3-1.
Yona - Rachmanov is the only
local player to reach today's semis
in the men's seniors class. He beat
top seed Gal Levran 3-0. Along
with him are Jack Stein (SA) who
triumphed over Derek Bass (UK)
3-2, Jeffrey Deitsch (US) who
beat Richard Margo) is (Australia)
3-0 and Martin Keraple (SA) who
triumphed over Andrew Brog
(US) 3-0.
Nadine Mizrahi is Rachmanov's
counterpart in the women's
seniors, after beating Denipe
McConie (Australia) 3-0. Other
winners were Laima Feldman
(Australia) against Susan Rose
(US) 3-2, Elaine Smaller
(Australia) who beat Debra Hodis
(US) 3-0 and Jill Segal (US) who
beat Leslie Kimeriing (US) 3-0.
South Africa won the group
event on Sunday beating Israel 2-
1 in the final. Australia and
England took third and fourth
places respectively.
Ibday's semifinals begin at
Herzliya at 9:00 with tomorrow’s
finals in Ra’anana. also at 9:00.
LEADER OF THE PACK - Canada's David Nemirofcky scored a bat-trick in gold medal win
over USA. fLiwd Ctffen)
Nemirofeky leads Canada past
USA for ice hockey gold
By U0HEI GAFFEH
David Nemirofsky scored a hat-
trick as Canada beat die USA 6-1
in the ice hockey gold medal game
at Metulla’s Canada Center last
night
Nemirofeky, who plays for the
NHL's Florida Panthers, scored
die first, fifth and six* goals of
the contest
Also scoring for the victors were
Cory Pecker, Aaron Brand and
Jamie Sokolski.
Tallying the lone goal for the
USA was Brett Chodorow.
In *e bronze medal game last
night, Anatoly Nayda scored the
winning goal in sudden death
overtime to give Ukraine a 9-8
win over Israel.
Israel led for much of the
game, but blew leads of 5-1 and
8-4.
The Ukrainian attack was led by
Ramil Yuldashev who had six
goals and three assists, inclwHne
the tying tally to force the over-
time.
Orgil, Eli Oosterbuis.
Putilov and Lari Bloch.
Major League Statistics
AMERICA N LEAG UE
TEAM batting
R H HR RB ^8
3424 531 1012 119 503 .295
3358 564 974 148 542 2W
3080 SO! 881 128 464 28
3328 498 938 88 464 281
3305 500 922 92 478 278
3283 470 913 76 445 278
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Boston
Seat*
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Anaheim
New fork
Minnesota
Texas
Chicago
Baltimore
INDIVIDUAL BATTING
Based on 235 plat* a PP ea [* na jL BR .
AB R H HR RBI wg
(TtamsOi 297 65 110 21 00 370
jeffenonB«263 49 94 9 43 357
UtoCle 267 42 « 2 46 356
Rabertsltt 230 30 79 1 25 343
295 43 100 10 38 339
369 59 124 II 44 336
SEs«34S 70 116 16 70 336
NVaaghn Bos275 58 92 22 52 335
Li rezOe 300 49 100 13 50 333
isstiaQt 252 47 84 18 51 333
Cora Sea 347 66 US 9 39 331
O’Neill NY 323 54 106 12 64 328
Greer Tu 343 64 III 13 49 324
gMcrwAna 362 46 115 2 51 311
Stanley Bos 213 37 67 11 48 3 5
MofowNin 293 34 92 J 54 314
CowierMin 26B 36 84 8 46 313
OfTeman KC 260 39 81 2 28 3 2
Oleary Bos 284 39 88 9 44 3W
RDavisSea 308 47 95 13 49 308
Sic 263 38 8. 15 51 JOS
Alodrigwi Sea 350 64 IK 3 44 J06
DajnonXC 246 34 75 4 29 305
JHbtaitmBodfl 55 105 7 44 303
Griffey ]r Sea 357 69 08 30 89 303
Mipskn 341 66 103 6 37 302
WfflbmsH 292 59 M 10 53 301,
By4adeneeBal345 60 104 9 45 301,
THaHoH7363 66 109 33 91 3M
McGwire OaV 329 48 90 34 79 298
401 70 119 14 5 297
Edmonds 4na327 54 97 16 54 297
Salmon ha 337 30 MW 16 67 294
Miosha 331 61 97 II S3 293
Emadto 339 59 99 10 47 292
GiambiOak 288 37 84 II 49 2W
Inolhocli Hin 359 70 105 6 41 292
Fryman Del 336 58 98 14 58 292
Smboff Bal 301 51 88 13 H 292
TbomeOe 285 61 83 26 67 29
Btlle Or 3J4 57 109 21 76 29
BoioesCh 285 35 83 10 46 291
LrrettaHil 262 39 76 4 29 290
Jeter NY 386 65 112 4 38 290
DaWilsoo Seo3l7 44 92 7 45 290
Cordero Bos 310 51 90 13 45 290
RMomarBal 304 47 88 9 40 289
BorroaBal 328 49 94 19 54 287
OriUo Mil 339 44 97 54 286
Hwnmwds 64 255 45 23 15 38 286
HaehringBos259 38 24 9 40 286
Alicea Ana 250 40 71 4 28 284
CRipkenBal 373 46 106 II 58 284
leyriuha 269 44 76 [0 48 203
juFranco
KeyBal 129 123 45 H 12 6 172
uL»ip«128 102 45 »
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hmtnKY 147 144 40 95 II 5 3.12
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Dickson Ana 132 W» Tl J 4 . \\\
Mussina Bil 138 118 3 U5 0 4 337
HentgenTor 165 163 44 IK 9 7 3.42
Gordon Bos 127 112 48 IM 5 7 352
DVftlls UK 120 127 23 77 9 4 3.74
KT 139 42 75 10 5 3.76
Ml IM IH » a { I »
Rosado K 135 121 46 80 7 6 3X7
S-Ttfa 113 135 24 61 4 8 3.90
RadkeHin 140 152 31 98 12 5 3.91
SL 101 99 41 56 6 4 3.98
EritaBal 126 130 32 58 II 5 4.05
BHcDonaUHil 133 120 36 110 J 7 4X6
140 142 53 114 8 5 4.10
DOthrerTex 116 122 46 66 6 9 4.11
SCI ID 105 38 63 5 8 430
HodiforDa 113 HR 38 63 6 I 430
D'Amico Mil 103 03 37 70 8 4 434
fcWWte 105 98 53 83 4 10 436
CfjnleyAoa 114 108 40 114 7 6 4.42
Blair Det 81 92 31 37 8 4 4.44
Ayala Sea 54 56 21 43 6 3 4J0
Burton Tex l 31 175 20 94 7 8 453
KawOe 129 153 47 84 9 6 458
5JH,Sea 97 100 25 49 9 3 4J0
E^Det 115 110 53 74 5 6 4.70
Ech 124 BO SI 85 7 9 4.71
ASsnall Oak 58 68 29 34 6 4 4.76
Hershiser Qe 132 143 40 72 9 5 4J7
STIC 138 158 42 80 B 9
VtoonAna 115 12045 78 8 « 4X2
Guzman lor 60 48 31 52 3 6 4.95
PrietnOak 114 142 65 85 6 6 4.97
HdmJHH 119 123 55 70 * J 5.14
town.0. 130 154 50 92 7 8 517
bybrn^Hic 101 107 50 45 7 7 532
Karl MB 104 120 49 62 l 10 535
Person 'for 72 70 24 60 3 6 535
- 95 23 42 5 4 536
118 45 60 5
356
355
355
353
353
McCracken Col 219 45 57 3 23 260
WGreene Gn 265 36 69 14 46 360
IGnllcflPft 310 35 80 7 36 358
KWhheMofl 343 45 88 13 40 357
CainuidSD 270 44 69 9 46
Broca Phi 330 35 84 12 53
Sosa Ck 381 53 97 18 67
DeBellHou 249 28 63 6 30
BvksCbl 245 55 62 17 49
Dayton StL 361 47 91 6 H 352
Stocker Phi 307 23 77 1 21 351
Mannrai|Csl 215 19 54 I 17
GHR1SF 299 31 75 8 49
Jefferies Phi 329 44 82 7 34
SandbergOi 285 35 71 5 37
qohnsm Fla 231 22 57 7 29 347
Flaherty SD 292 23 72 5 33 3fl
8*^1x240 28 59 3 23 246
Sheffield Fla 248 48 61 11 43 246
KentSF 336 49 82 20 70 344
Mo Fla 248 27 60 0 8 242
Canine Fla 287 28 68 8 35 337
Lieberthal Phi255 32 60 13 39 33
ZdleLA 344 50 81 20 50 33
356 55 83 4 23 332
273 25 62 2 19 22,
315 47 71 13 42 321
315 44 67 9 44
351
351
249
249
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BBooraGo 259 22 55 2 27
Manta
Sl Loots
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Will fox 96
7 531
SdeBn HI Of « W 10 7 534
OgeaQe
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KarsayOakl 13
WengenOak 88
Pittdeytt 73
HohfefOak 75
SSaodersSea 65
DrabekQi 92
AldredMin 77
Chariton Sea 43
109 38 64 5 8 5.49
101 45 64 5 7 537
135 41 83 3 9 5X0
111 28 46 4 8 5.91
83 34 34 2 7 6.14
93 41 48 I 8 634
73 38 62 3
TEAM PITCHING
ERA H EK BB SO ft Sv
329 807 315 262 63810 26
jlumb. 3.42 797 322 304 721 3 23
LosAngeJes 3.54 784 339 344 708 5 26
florida* 335 777 350 364 6815 27
Horton 3 JO 855 370 303 673 8 25
Montreal 3.93 755 366 338 64411 25
New York 4JH MO 302 283 554 6 30
Su Francisco 4.16 870 394 338 576 7 33
S^r^433 858 397 340 628 2 24
iSeh 431 876 404 318 620 8 24
GoamS 432 821 405 345 689 2 25
5J9 976 497 386 £281 27
PhHaXia 5.47 855 492 404 6362 16
[ST 5.61 ion 527 360 4982 19
6.47
37 40 6 7 6J0
102 28 33 2 107.68
58 30 32 2 7 7J9
Colorado
Adana
San Diego
Hew folk
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junouiui Qe 276 42 78 3 24 JO
Nilsson Mil 330 43 93 .11 50 282
SuinbachNn277 38 78 9 41 2 82
Means Min 292 46 82 8 43 28
Merced Tor 345 41 97 9 39 281
TfcrundezOe225 32 63 4 23 2M
Sonento Sea 278 46 77 18 46 277
JuGenataTw 282 43 78 22 74 W
JBellKC 332 51 92 13 59 277
foOarVDet 330 64 91 23 77 276
BumitzHil 275 54 76 14 41 276
CDeigada for 284 47 78 21 55 275
DiNvunCh 284 42 78 10 38 275
Grissom Qe 310 41 85 5 39 274
Higgiasan Dei289 51 79 15 55 273
Becker Min 275 41 75 7 29 273
TGoodwin K341 47 92 I 19 270
fizquelQe 319 51 86 2 28 270
OGaillenOi 300 42 81 1 20 270
EaskyDet 297 60 80 14 35 269
Bragg Bos 328 43 88 8 42 268
{sValentin Mi 240 26 64 8 35 267
RPalnein Bal374 55 100 17 56 267
BoeesSY 223 28 59 3 18 265
2m34I 47 90 7 30 264
GirardiNY 243 23 64 32 263
Nieves Det 269 39 70 IS 51 260
BlHunter Det382 65 99 4 34 259
Nixon for 323 48 83 0 9 257
MdJMnorefox247 37 63 0 5 255
Durham Ch 374 64 95 7 33 254
fielder NY 319 35 81 10 51 254
Lawton Hin 281 43 71 6 30 253
DSarrina Am 320 31 81 3 35 253
Buhner Sea 332 63 82 24 71 247
fine RC 317 56 78 16 62 246
Palmer fox 331 44 81 12 50 245
MaWiflbiwae 343 55 84 22 60 245
HashoreOak 261 54 63 2 16 241
AGouzalezlbr 306 31 73 8 25 239
Carter Tor 352 43 84 12 62 239
SpieznOak 302 32 72 9 37 238
Cawest Oak 341 48 81 18 60 238
Snopek Ch 269 27 61 5 35 227
SordkkBal 309 37 70 3 26 227
Sprague for 342 46 77 10 33 225
PhqiwEKlX 247 24 55 8 30 223
Bulonifox 294 40 65 6 ^ "Si
CGarriafor 275 25 60 2 J5 218
DCnnDe 238 22 51 1 22
BrosiusOak 353 47 73 8 30 207
New York
Baltimore
Toronto
Anaheim
Milwaukee
Chicago
Texas
Detroit
Kansas Gty
Qevejaml
Boston
Minnesota
Seat*
TEAM PITCHING
ERA H ER BB SO Sh 5v
3.68 855 350 316 675 5 33
321 782 345 323 633 7 37
3 J4 808 354 273 643 10 21
439 B47 403 342 607 4 23
4.43 815 393 323 545 5
4.45 873 413 340 542 4
4.45 902 408 307 539 6
4i8 852 433 359 539 6
4.75 866 430 303 529 4
4.87 887 428 326 557 2
4.99 951 475 379 566 2
5.06 924 470 316 5(1 2
523 901 497 373 708 4
INDIVIDUAL PITCHING
Eased on 9 decisions
IP H BB SO W L ERA
109 39 166 15 3 Ii2
97 56 198 13 2 233
24 22 34 6 3 141
29 |4 44 6 3 143
foment Tor IS5
ijobtunSea 147
leLnriaAna 37
lamrsonfo 40
one NY
148 121 64 176 10 4 149
national league
team BATTING
AB R H HR RBI Avg
3327 550 950 130 514 215
3278 502 930 104 481 283
3366 499 921 94 478 273
ifftw mi* 3248457 868 89 436 267
Los Angeles 3261 425 873 103 4W 267
Montreal 3181 414 849 96 391 266
Sl Louis 3126 403 843 80 3W 261
Honda 3147 407 818 63 385 259
Chicago 3229 407 831 70 379 257
San Frandsco 3201 424 821 98 4W 256
Pittsburgh 3193 397 812 68 377 254
Cmdanad 3188365 8OT 66 337 253
Houston 3292 425 830 70 392 252
Philadelphia 3112 361 770 66 336 247
INDIVIDUAL BATTING
Based on 235 plate appearancK
AB R H HR RBI Avg
Walker Col 343 88 138 27 79 .402
GwynnSD 372 64 147 15 84
Piazza LA 332 56 118 19 62
Joyner SD 267 38 92 8 53
LoftonAt 288 51 99 3 33
BtauseTAd 310 60 105 12 «
Atfonzo NY 287 43 93 6 40
Lankford StL 276 55 89 22 71
HaGraceQi 307 47 99 9 «
Galarraga Col 360 70 116 23 91
Bader LA 215 33 690 I 0
ChjonesAd 357 62 112 15 76
Bonilla Ffe 324 41 101 8 54
ILopezAd 238 33 74 14 42
Bichette Col 342 48 106 13 68
SeguiMoo 250 43 77 8 36
BiggioHou 381 84 117 13 47
Bagwell Hon 351 64 107 25 B6
Horaafini Phi 335 53 102 I 18
DHamitam Sf 245 35 74 3 21
Javier SF 242 41 73 5 26
DeSfoietds StL 335 53 100 6 30
GMfoCh 238 48 71 2 18
RandaPit 249 33 74 5 34
SnowSF 315 44 93 13 49
WGnrreroLA26S 28 78 2 26
Dunston Qi 272 39 80 6 29
Rofon Phi 335 52 98 12 57
OterwIHY 335 64 98 14 M
Tucker Ad 346 57 101 9 43
Huskey NY 257 33 75 13 50
DSanders Gn 363 42 106 4 20
Sanaasdi Hon 230 43 67 4 24
Mondesi LA 364 58 106 19 50
KfoongRt 237 42 69 12 49
Hundley NY ' 265 58 77 20 57
Lansing Mon 358 57 103 13 43
HLewisSF 219 32 63 7 26
Kendall Pit 289 46 83 3 30
EcYoangCoi 374 65 107 4 32
AJonesAd 225 38 64 8 41
CGoodwinGn236 26 67 1 12
AkwFta 322 50 91 9 68
AMartinPit 206 28 58 7 26
HcGrifF Ad 344 52 97 12 55
BaergaNY 295 29 83 5 30
LGesoltzBoa 339 41 95 4 40
Renteria Fla 369 52 103 3 34
Mabry StL 315 33 88 5 35
GaawLA 333 31 93 S 38
Bonds SF 316 68 11 23 54
SFinleySD 318 59 88 19 65
H«dosonSD2l3 50 59 5 21
KarrasLA 366 55 101 22 67
GndMfcntfa37l 44 102 2 33
HMorrisGn 305 38 84 l 33
Everett HY 274 36 75 9 35
GaetdStL 292 37 80 II 40
AusmnsHoo 256 32 70 3 26
CasdllaCol 362 55 99 23 67
YhcamoSF 338 45 V. 2 28
Weiss Col 258 28 70 2 24
QVtnuSD 315 48 85 3 33
Womack Ptt 381 43 103 3 33
Kfosko Ad 296 45 80 18 59
DfouigStL 235 27 63 3 25
Semis Ch 247 28 66 5 32
DaultonPlii 267 46 70 II 41
Gomez SD 345 47 90 5 39
RBodrigMa;ltofl330 41 86 18 55
Estes SF
Morris StL
IThldes LA
Meed NY
395
355
345
344
339
324
322
322
3D
321
314
312
311
310
308
307
305
304
302
302
299
298
297
295
294
294
293
293
292
292
292
291
291
291
291
288
288
287
286
284
284
283
282
282
281
280
279
279
279
278
277
277
276
275
275
274
274
273
273
272
271
270
270
270
268
267
262
261
261
INDIVIDUAL PITCHING
Based on 9 derisions
IP H BB SO W L BA
BWagnerHou 44 30 13 74 6 3 IJI
P|Kartuez Hon 140 89 39 172 I 5 IJ7
Kile Hot) 158 121 6° C 3 2.10
GMadduxAd 139 117 16 110 13 3 2.45
HcMkhaelNY 49 43 17 4 6 7 235
AIBenesStL 140 104 60 146 9 7 2J2
iqBrownRa 142 125 35 133 9 S W
QavineAd 149 129 45 84 10 5 2J9
111 97 59 101 12 4 2.89
118 113 35 87 6 6 189
112 102 30 78 5 9 197
m»« H7 H5 16 66 * 4 2J9
AnBemsStL 110 93 36 118 6 4 3X3
CookePit 108 107 45 64 7 9 3.06
FCoidovaPrt 126 118 29 77 6 6 3.07
Park LA 111 86 42 88 7 5 3. 4
Herder Gn 101 87 46 51 7 6 3 9
SdnHiag Phi 148 129 40 176 II 8 328
Smoltz Ad 150 151 35 117 8 8 329 .•
NeagfoAd 141 134 29 97 13 2 331
BJJowsNY 134 122 38 91 12 5 334
te€snzafczQi64 49 33 42 7 2 336
MlartinezlA 94 89 48 « 6 3
Gardner SF 125 121 39 93 0 4 3^
MnDtoHand Cbl32 134 31 62 6 9 3JI
CPfcrezMon 131 127 34 6 9 6 3i2
RBaikyW 116 122 37 46 8 7 3.63
Judea Mon IB 103 48 96 II 2 3.75
AFmndezFb128 111 37 104 10 8 3.78
Homo LA 129 112 59 145 9 8 3JB
BieleddAd 48 48 16 49 3 6 3^
SmttkmyreSxLI36 113 44 IB 9 6 3J9
FosterCh 113 107 49 89 10 5 330
HoftHou 126 143 40 63 7 6 3.98
RueterSF 108 112 30 67 6 4 4X0
RGarriaHoa 87 80 28 63 4 7 4X3
MChrkNY 122 135 43 63 7 6 4X4
Ashby SD 108 116 28 62 5 6 4.06
Reynolds Hot 97 MM IS 6 415
LiebffPrt 116 118 35 W 6 9 424
jHamiltwSD 102 109 44 67 8 3 424
AstarioLA 116 116 42 83 5 7 433
Hitchcock SD 95 93 33 63 5 5 436
LoainPit 117 13232 72 6 7 436
NenFb 45 47 30 51 7 2 437
khmidtPit 100 103 39 75 4 5 4.41
RappRa 108 121 51 64 4 6 4.47
Hampton Hou 127 134 42 82 6 7 4J2
Reynoso NY 91 95 29 47 6 3 4B
MliddNY 112 122 51 89 4 7 4X2
Alerter Ha 86 82 57 75 8 6 4J8
ValaafinBtun St 84 73 56 48 4 6 _ 4.93
Valenzuela StL 89 106 46 61 2 12 4.96
Morgan Cm 85 93 33 54 3 7 4.98
TradselCh 114 137 40 92 4 7 M2
TiWwreH SD 78 84 37 51 3 6 5.03
SdourekGn 61 51 28 46 5 5 5.14
BuibaGn 120 IB 60 104 6 9 530
FCastibCh 98 113 44 67 6 9 5.42
Ballinger Hon 112 112 57 61 6 9 554
Smiley Gn (03 127 3! 83.8 10 LM
RhzW 107 142 46 56 6 8 5X7
HUfftrPhi 104 125 38 71 5 10 Ul
Dn Jackson SD 52 73 22 27 2 7 7.10
HadnroPhi 71 83 41 31 3 7 7J3
JmWrigJrtCbl 66 99 40 32 4 5 8i0
CALLING HIM OFF- Mels CF Lance Johnson (1) cots in front
Kent Mercker. New York won 10-1.
of 2B Manny Alexander to grab a shallow fly off the bat of
Mets rout
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NEW YORK (AP) - Todd
Hundley homered from both sides
of the plate, going 4-for-4 anddn-
ving in five runs as the New York;
Mets routed the Cincinnati Reds
10-1 on Sunday.
Bernard Gilkey went 3-for-4
with a two-run homer, and Dave
Mlicki (5-7) bad the first two-hit
gam* of his career and scored
twice. New York won its fourth
straight and sent Cincinnati to its
third straight loss.
Hundley homered leading on
the third against Kent Mercker (7-
7). Hundley hit a three-nm shot,
his 22nd, in the sixth off Felix
Rodriguez.
Astros 9, Expos O
Lois Gonzalez homered twice,
including his first career grand
slam, and matched his career high
with six RBIs as visiting Houston
completed a three-game sweep.
Darryl Kile (13-3) pitched a
four-hitter for his fourth shutout
this season, struck out six, walked
one and lowered his ERA to 1 -99-
He also went 2-for-3 with a double
at the plate.
Gonzalez hit a two-run homer in
the sixth off Dustin Herman son
(4-5) and the grand slam off Omar
Daal in the eighth as Houston won
for the 10th time in 13 games.
Dodgers 8, Braves 3
Chan Ho Park struck out a
career-high 11 in innings and
singled home the go-ahead run as
Los Angeles won on the road.
Park (8-5), who has won three
straight starts for the first time,
allowed six hits and walked two.
Los Angles is 13-4 in July and has
wot nine of its last 12 road games.
John Smoltz (8-9), who has won
only twice in 11 starts, gave up six
runs - three earned - and 10 hits in
seven innings.
Phillies 4, Pirates 1
Mi die Cummings, picked up on
waivers from Pittsburgh two weeks
ago, hit a triple and . double and
scored twice for host Philadelphia.
The Phillies, with the worst record
in the majors at 29-66, are 5-5 since
the All-Star break.
Rockies 9, Cobs 5
Lany Walker homered twice to
raise his league-leading total to 29
as visiting Colorado stopped an
eight-game losing streak.
Yinny Castilla hit two solo
homers and Eric Young added
another for the Rockies, who had
lost 1 5 of their previous 16.
Young broke a 5-all tie in tire
seventh with an RBI double off
Tferry Adams (1-5).
Walker, in an 0-14 slump, went
3-for-S, raising his average to
395. he hit two-run homers m the
fifth off Kevin Foster and in die
ninth off Mel Rojas. Foster
allowed four homers, raising his
league-high total to 21.
Giants 9, Cardinals 2
Barry Bonds hit his 24th homer,
and Kirk Rueter (7-4) allowed one
run and six hits in seven innings,
striking out seven in 96-degree F
heat
Stan Javier hit a three-run homer
and newly acquired Brian Johnson
drove in two runs as visiting San
Francisco stopped a three-game
losing streak. San Francisco had
lost five in a row at Busch
Stadium, dating to last season.
Padres 3, Marlins 0
Andy Ashby pitched seven
shutout innings and Chris Gomez
hit a two-run triple to lead San
Diego to a road victory.
Tim Worrell and Trevor
Hoffman completed the six-hitter.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
White Sox 10, Orioles -2
Cal Ripken was ejected for only
die third time in his career as host
Baltimore lost for the 10th time in
13 games.
Ripken was ejected by plate
umpire A1 Clark in the second for
arguing a called third strike.
Ripken’s previous ejections, both
for arguing a called strike in the
first inning, occurred in 1987 and
1989.
Frank Thomas went 4-for-5 with
a two-run homer and four RBIs,
and Jaime Navarro (8-8) blanked
Baltimore until Tony Tarasco
homered in the ninth, allowing
nine hits.
Indians 7, Red Sox 2
Charles Nagy (10-6) gave up
two runs and seven hits in seven
innings as Indians manager Mike
Hargrove got his 500th career vic-
tory. Host Cleveland stopped
Boston’s season-high winning
streak at four.
Hargrove, 500-418 (.545) since
becoming Cleveland’s manager in
1991, became the fourth active
manager with 500 wins with his
current club. The others are Bobby
Cox of Atlanta, Cito Gaston of
Toronto and Tom Kelly of
Minnesota.
Twins 1, Athletics 0
Brad Radke (13-5) pitched a
five-hitter to win his ninth consec-
utive start as visiting Minnesota
won its fourth straight and com-
pleted a three-game sweep.
Radke, who hasn't lost since
June 2 at Texas, matched his
career high with 10 strikeouts and
walked none. It was Radke ’s sec-
ond career shutout, tire first since
August 1995, against Tfexas.
Mariners 5, Royals 4
Jamie Moyer (10-3) won for the
sixth time following a Seattle loss
and Paul Sonento homered, send-
ing visiting Kansas Gty to its 17th
loss in 19 games.
Moyer (10-3), who reached dou-
ble digits in wins for the third time
in his 11-year career, allowed four
runs and nine hits in 635 inningis,
leaving after Chili Davis’s three-
nm homer in the seventh made it a
one-run game. *
Angels 9, Blue Jays 5
Chuck Finley (8-6) won his fifth
straight start allowing five runs
and nine hits in 6 K innings and j.-
striking out eight as host Anjiheira fr
won for the 12th time in 13 games.
Toronto lost manager Cito
Gaston and Joe Carter to ejections.
Gaston was tossed for die first
rime this season in the third inning
for arguing a call with first base .
umpire Mike Everitt, and Carter
was thrown out in the seventh in a
checked-swing dispute with plate
umpire John Hirschbeck.-
Brewers 6, Yankees 2
Hideki Irabu fizzled in his major
league road debut as Milwaukee
pounded the 28-year-old Japanese
right-hander. -
In a game broadcast across
America and Japan, Irabu (2-1)
was rocked for six eamed-nms on
seven hits in 635 innings as the
Brewers handed him iris 'first
major league loss and raised his
ERAfrom 5.40. to 6.38. " «"• '
Dave Nilsson homered,,doubled
and drove m three runs off Irabu,
who was overshadowed by » solid
outing from Milwaukee left-han-
der Scott -Kari . (4-10)^. who.
allowed eight bite in his first com-
plete game of the seasotL -
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Atlanta 3; Philadelphia 4, Pittsboig)i 1;.
NY 10, Cindmari -J; . Houston 9,
Monacal O; Sair Francisco 9, Sc Louis
2; Colorado .9’,- ^ Chicago 5; Sari Diego 3,
Florida 0. , ' '
Sunday’s AL results: Cleveland 7,
Boston ;2;' Chi cago; lO, Baltimore 2;
Anaheim 9, Toronto 5; Minnesota 1,
Oakland 0; Seattle :5V.Kansas : Cuy 4;
Milwaukee 6, NY 2; Texas 7, Detroit 6
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American League
East Division
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58 37 .011 -
Fremantle Dockers upset Western Bulldogs
55 41 X73 316
45 49 .479 1215
45 51 .4S9 13*
44 53 -454 15
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Detroit
Boston
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Cleveland e
Chicago
MBwaukee
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west Division
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47 48 .480 7
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Seattle
Anaheim
Texas
Oakland
MELBOURNE (AP) - The Fremantle
Dockers, battling 10 other teams for middle-of-
the-table honors, upset the second-place
Western Bulldogs by six points Sunday in an
Australian Rules football match.
The Dockers, in 12th place but only four points
out of third in (be Australian Football League,
beat the Bulldogs 15.7 (97) to 13.1 3 (91).
In foe only other AFL match Sunday, North
Melbourne had an easy time beating
Melbourne 17.12 (l 14) to 7.16 (58).
On Saturday, Port Adelaide kicked five of foe
fust six goals to beat Collin gw ood 17.9 (in)
to 8.10 (58).
Sydney overcame a sluggish first half to
overrun a depleted West Coast by 37 points*
After trailing by seven points at halftime.* die
Swans kicked 10 goals to four in the second
half to win 15.22 (1 12) to 1 1.9 (75) and extend
their unbeaten home record to 19 matches.
Stefan Carey starred for foe Swans with five
goals.
SL Kilda ruck rover Robert Harvey put m
one of foe best performances of his career to
help his team thrash Hawthorn by 13 goals.
The Saints star collected 40 possessions as Sl
Kilda cruised te a 20.21 (141) ,1b. 9*' <62X*H1 n
G eelong consolidated top place on foeJadder
by beating Richmond. The Cats trahe&by 23
points at quarter-time after foe Tlgerewoted
seven opening-term goals but- then th^teague
leaders booted 13 gods tafive to wia comfort-
ably, 16.14(110) to 12.6 (78).— - V./4f
Carlton kept its fmals hope? 3liy© Vf
point win over Esseodoo, tearing foe
25.15 (165) to; l3#(87) f , :V^-.
On Friday, .foe Brisfojme liooS sccse^^ 3l-„
point win over Adelaide,. 17.1 6. (118) .to 13.9
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- Michael Ajzenstadt
; . Tonight is the last chance for Haifa
-jnusK^-lovers to enjoy the Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra’s stunning
concert presentation of Puccini’s
Turandor under the baton of Zubin
L Mehta, with the superb choir of the
Maggio : Musicale from Florence.
.! Audrey. Sottler is the ice princess and
.Gegam Gregorian is the prince who
.. solves her riddles. 8;30 at the Haifa
^ Auditorium. The show moves to the
Mann' Auditorium in Tel Aviv tomor-
' row until July 29.
TELEVISION
Elana Chipman
The' French Aite Channel (43) puts
^(jotbeme nights on various bizarre top-
: icsfrom time to time. Tonight’s theme
- is Ptmk Hair and the Gold Helmet , an
evening dedicated solely to that stuff
ba ipp of our beads we spend so much
time.and money waiting and styling.
Starting off, at ] 0:40, is the camp com-
.edy Hairspray (1988), in English with
French subtitles. This nostalgic satire
of TV teen dance programs in the early
directed by John Waters, features Divine,
iy Hany and many other big names.
Gegam Gregorian stars as the prince In the Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra’s concert presentation of
Puccini’s ‘Ibrandot.’
Deb!
Following, from 00: 1 0 to 2 wilt be five short films
on various aspects of hair its erotic features, bald-
ness; black hairdos, military haircuts as a symbol
of castration, French hairdressers and more. A
tnnst'for anyone who spends more than 20 shekels
on a haircut.
FILM
Adina Hoffman
***★ PRIVATE PARTS - Based on the
autobiography of the rude, crude New York radio
personality Howard Stern, Betty Thomas’s film is
one of die more entertaining bits of celebrity self-
aggrandizement to surface in a long time.
Actually, the movie - which stars Stem as himself
- works by means of a clever blend of self-love
and self-mockery, as it also further develops the
tricky trompe-V oeit technique that he has perfect-
ed on his WNBC radio show. To hear Stem tell it,
no subject is off limits for on-air discussion. His
improvised banter appears to be brutally honest
and totally intimate, and his massive public appeal
is based on the fact that his honesty knows no
bounds. While such total frankness is a fine claim
to fame, it is, of course, not true. Stem’s straight-
talking. wisecracking radio persona is just that - a
persona. And if there’s one thing that his inspired
movie debut makes clear it's that he is, above all,
a fantastic actor, a man who has cast himself in the
part of soul-bearing vulgarian and thoroughly
mastered the role. Featuring a blend of actors and
real-life media personalities, as themselves.
(English dialogue. Hebrew subtitles. Children
under 17 not admitted without an adult.)
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 A garden plot the children
Utter (7)
5 Person set against work
with model (7)
9 Check heartless rogue
joining the crowd (7)
10 Distressed by the French
charges (7)
'11 The manufacturer's
, specification meant dear
products (5,4)
12 Fellow greeting Latin swell
(5)
13 Close in the finish — and
yet never in doubt (5)
15 Control a good man
completely put back (9)
17 Orders put out for projects
(9)
19 Blue or quite proper? (5)
22 Duck like one’s water
feature (5)
23 Introduce new cut (9)
25 Getting all straight at the
end of the day (7)
26 What a worker might well
assume is loDg-term (7)
27 The eccentric seek and find
so it’s told (7)
28 Making a point if not dim
(7)
DOWN
1 Increase of time spent in
jail (7)
2 Account for getting out of
flat (7)
3 Trains first mate, note (5)
4 The underworld boss railed
when expelled by law (9)
5 Church m stone of a rich
yellow colour (5)
6 He'll buy for cash possibly
in nicer surroundings (9)
7 The Moslem lady offers
fruit (7)
8 Rearrange letters right
and left— without sleep
maybe (7)
14 Certain policemen fix the
standard (9)
16 Almost imprisoned over
unpaid debts and
double-dealing (9)
17 Operation of small firm
backed in newspapers (7)
18 Sickening cob seen to be in
a bad way (7)
20 Forbidding one to distort
the expression (7)
21 Snarls if crooked agents
keep the money (7)
23 Outfit the same? That's
tough] (5)
24 Cold, thin wash (5)
SOLUTIONS
Yesterday's Quick Solution
ACROSS: l Heresy , 4 Crecy, 8 Belie,
9 Restful, 10 Sextant, 11 Undo, 12
How. 14 Idle, IS Apse, 18 Sop, 21
Odds, 23 Radiant, 25 Kalvem, 28
Rouse, 27 Loyal. 28 Errand.
DOWN: 1 Harass, 2 Relaxed, 3
Socrates. 4 Cask, 5 Elfin, 8 Yellow,
7 Truth, 13 Wanderer. 16 Scapula,
17 Formal, 19 Prana, 20 Attend, 22
Delay, 24 WoR
QUICK CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Mixes np (7)
5 Tossed (5)
8 Stem (5)
9 Shows off(7)
10 Entourage (7)
11 Portion (5)
12 Alfresco meal (6)
14 Individual (6)
17 Confute (5)
19 Fruit plantation
(7)
22 Quiet (7)
23 Relieve (5)
24 Depart (5)
25 Made certain (7)
DOWN
1 Skinflint (5)
2 Severe (7)
3 Compare (5)
4 Undergo (6)
5 Walk wearily (7)
6 Wash (5)
7 Occidental (7)
12 Sunshade (7)
13 Extreme (7)
16 Tfriier (7)
16 Stick together (6)
18 Very light wood
(5)
20 Stupid (5)
21 Wood-nymph (5)
I JORDAN TV
I CHANNEL 1
6:30 News flash
6:31 News in Arabic
6:45 Good Morning
Israel
iSM Holy Koran
1535 French programs
16:05 Super Sport FoBy
16:30 Doghouse
17:00 Square One TV
17:15 The Afeum Show
1 8rl0 French programs
19:00 News m French
I EDUCATIONAL TV
8:00 Cartoons
10HM Eric's Worid
1030 My Life as a Dog
11:00 A Maher ol Time
11:35 Hot Science
12:10 AJ„ Tame
Traveller
13:00 Cartoons (rpt)
15:15 Gogo*
Adventures with English
19:30 News headSnes
19-^5 Coach
20:00 TO
20:30 Encounter
21:10 The Nature of
i News in Entfish
22:30 West Beach
23:15 Drug Ware
18:00 Good Evening
with Guy Pines
18:30 Local Broadcast
19:15 The Young and
the Restless
19^45 Sunset Beach
20:30 The Other Half
20-.55 Beverly HBs
90210
21:40 Suddenly Susan
22:05 The Single Guy
2230 Love Story with
Yossi Styas
23:00 Seinfeld (rpt)
23:25 Babylon 5 (ipf )
00:15 The Streets ol
San Francisco
1:05 Bamaby Jones
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■ MOVIE
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15:30 Zappy Wave
15:33 X-Man
15:50 Super Ben
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16:59 A New Evening
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16:10 Super Ben
18:15 News in English
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19:31 Cosily
2900 News
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18*0 Perfect!
1635 Saved by the]
19:00 Showbiz
1930 World News
Tonight (Arabic)
20:00 Showcase
2950 The Boast, Part
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about Soviets in
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23.-00 CNN
23:30 The 700 Club
OtfcOQ Quantum
Shopping
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h50 Weekly Lotto
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20-.55 Mine Host Meni
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22:00 The People’s
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23:00 Dream i
23:30 News
0900 Verse al the Day
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17:00 Man and Nature
18:00 Sea of Thoughts
1900 News in Arabic
19:30 Video C8ps
20&0 News
20:45 Runpote of the
11:30 Adam. His
Song Continues
(1986) - parents
whose son was kid-
napped and murdered
fight bureaucracy
13:10 Seeing Stars
14:00 Bans Baisera
de Hong Kong
(French, 1975) -the
comic Chariots group
are sent to Hong Kong
to rescue the kid-
napped British queen
15:40 Linda (1993) -
two couples go on
vacation together.
When an affair devel-
ops, one wife shoots
the other couple. With
Virginia Madsen
17:00 New in the
Cinema
17:15 Vsftors of the
Night (1995) - a
woman discovers that
she had been abduct-
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1830 The Pi
(Hebrew, 1972) -
comedy scripted by
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20:20 The Mask
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22:00 TotaBy F*~ed
Up (1994) -indepen-
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the world al bored Los
Angeles adolescents
who are also gay
2325 The Red Circle
(Bench, 1970)- an ex-
con plans a daring jewel
hast suggested by a
prison waden. Wnb
Alain Delon (134irinsJ
Animals
18:00 The Site
19:00 National
Geographic Television
20:00 The Ticket
20:30 VIP
21:00 Dateline
22:001
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23:00 The Tonight
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OOtfO Late Night with
Conan O'Brien
1:00 Later
130 NBC Nightly News
13.-00 Speedworid
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19:30 Rally: F1A
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2230 Boxing
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7:00 Coflee with Tel-Ad
9:00 The Monkey's
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10:40 Cartoons
11:00 The Legend of
Prince Valiant
12:00 Tush Tush
13:00 Ptatfus
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Prince ot Bel Air
14.-00 Degrassi Junior
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14:30 Tic Tac
15:00 Aladdin
16:00 The Bold and
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1&50 Different Driving
17:00 News maga-
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17:30 Twenty Plus
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1900 America's
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Sephardi, the other •
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00:00 News
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1530 Jake and the Kid
16:35 Hot Science (rpt)
17:10 AJL,Tme
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18:00 Fairay Abum
1830 Bitz on Cartoons
19:00 Tastes
19:30 Mirror
20:00 A New Evening
20:30 Dites Md Tout
21 30 The Oiecfln Line
21:50 Blood Ties: The
Life and Work of SaBy
Mann - controversial
2335 Jericho Fever
(1993) -a group ol
terrorists flee to the US
with a lethal virus. The
MossadandtheFBl
must find them. With
Stephanie ZimbaEst
135 Little Odessa
(1994) -a Jewish
professional assassin
returns to Brighton
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Tim Roth (100 mins.)
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22:201
Giselle
2250 1, Claudius (pL 13)
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7:00 Good Even
with Guy Pines (q
7:30 Love Story with
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8:00 DaSas (rpt)
9:00 One Life to Live
9:45 The Young and-
' the Restless (rpt) -
1030 Days ol Our • ■
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11:15 Zngara (rpt)
12:00 Bamaby Jones
6:30 Cartoons
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1030 Treasure Island
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1130 fir* Panther Show
12:00 Moesha
1235 Arwnaniacs
1330 Batman
1330 Hugo
14:10 Dennis the
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1450 Treasure Island
1530 Project Geeker
1530 Pink Panther
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1630 Moesha
16:50 Anrrtanacs
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630 Open University
8:00 Floyd on Italy:
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8:30 Travelog ue (rpt)
930 Worid d Wine:
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9:30 Die Fiedermaus
1230 Danzante
12:30 Beyond 2000 (rpQ
1235 Healthy Body (rpt)
13:30 Future Quest
To Bokffy Go_ (rpt)
1430 Nature on Track:
Toad in a Hole (rpt)
1430 Beyond 2000
15:20 Understanding
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16:15 Human Nature
17:00 Open University
19:00 Ultrascience:
Sex Appeal- a lock
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19:30 A Healthy Body
2030 Future Quest:
Hi Ho Hi Ho -work in
the future
20:30 Nature on
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2130 The Cresta Run
2230 Human Nature
2330 Open University
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730 E! TV
830 The Wonder Years
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Tuesday, July 22, 1997 The Jerusalem Post
Netanyahu rejects Sharon election law bid
BrUATCOLUHS
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
yesterday rejected the initiative by
National Infrastructure Minister Ariel
Sharon to change the direct elections
law so that a majority of 61 MKs would
be sufficient to oust the premier without
having to dissolve the Knesset and hold
new elections.
Under the law. a no-confidence motion
needs 61 MKs to pass, but requires new
general elections; while 80 MKs are
needed to remove the prime minister
without dissolving the Knesset.
A bill by MKs Dalia lezik (Labor) and
Anat Maor (Meretz), which would allow
the premier to be toppled by a 61 MK
majority without dissolving the Knesset,
is to be raised for preliminary reading in
the plenum tomorrow.
However, if it does not appear to have
a majority, the two will probably not
raise it Bills which fail to pass prelimi-
nary reading cannot be brought up again
for another six months. Their bill failed
six months ago.
Most Meretz and Shas MKs have said
they will oppose it.
National Religious Party leader
Zevulun Hammer said he is against the
proposed law, as are most of his party.
Several Labor MKs, including Haim
Ramon and Haggai Merom, also said
they would not support such a change.
*T greatly value Sharon," said
Netanyahu at a meeting of the Likud
yesterday. “I also know that his efforts
were made, for sure, with a positive
intention "
According to an official briefing,
Sharon told the Likud MKs that the
question “is not whether or not to join
political opponents, but whether or not
the electoral system is a good one."
He said the current system is not good
and should be “improved,” because it
reduces the power of the Knesset and
increases the influence of small parties.
Sharon said be did not intend hurting
the prime minister. “The last thing I '
want is a different government," said
Sharon, “but there must be a broad con-
sensus on diplomatic issues."
He denied he had met with Labor MK
Shimon Peres to call for a national unity
government and said he knows this is
“not realistic."
Justice Minister Tzahi Hanegbi said
changing the direct elections law now
would not stand up to a test in the High
Court Indeed, Attorney-General
Elyakim Rubinstein yesterday
announced his official legal opinion that
a majority of 80 MKs would be required
to approve Sharon's initiative.
MK Ze'ev Begin said he had told
Labor whip Ra'anan Cohen that “you
can't change the rules of the game in the
middle," and that any changes made
should be in effect only from the next
Knesset.
Likud whip Meir Sheetrit said the
coalition should not use the opposition's
initiative to get at the government. “If
there’s anything to change, we'll do it
ourselves," he said
Science Minister Michael Eitan
(Likud) also rejected the initiative to
change the direct elections law in the
current Knesset, which he said lacks the
moral right to make such a change.
“It would be a victory for negative
wheeling dealing and those pursuing
personal interests,” Eitan said.
Meretz leader Yossi Sarid also said he
opposes making the proposed change to
the direct elections law.
“We are not the party most interested
in having Sharon in the kitchen cabinet
and that is what the changes are aimed
at," said Sarid. “We have no interest in
increasing the blackmail power of the
extreme right wing.”
Michal Yudelman adds:
Sharon held a series of intensive meet-
ings in the Knesset with Likud “rebel”
MKs and Labor MKs to lobby for his
proposal. Labor whip Cohen told him
he favors the change, but could not
promise the bill would pass tomorrow if
it it comes to a vote.
Former Likud minister Moshe Arens is
forming an association for canceling die
direct election law, consisting of former
prime ministers Shimon Peres and
Yitzhak Shamir, and former justice min-
isters Haim Zadok and Moshe Nissim.
Meanwhile, Labor’s Knesset faction
discussed the proposal of party leader
Ehud Barak to change the law so that a
majority of 65 MKs could remove the
prime minister without dispersing the
Knesset. . . .
“We need to bring about a situation in
which the government will not be threat-
ened with toppling every Monday and
Thursday,” Barak said.
Peres, who always objected to the
direct election law, said he never felt in
two terms as prime minister, before the
Jaw passed, any lack of authority.
“Sometimes a prime minister needs
more brains, but that’s not a matter you
can put in the constitution," be said.
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Stamp out bad driving
Three -new postage stamps intended to discourage reckless driving have been issued by the
Postal Authority’s Philatelic Services. The colorful NIS 1.10 stamps, designed by 26-year-old
Bezalel graduate Guy Harlap, urge drivers to keep in their lane, keep their distance and not
dnilk and drive. (lexi by Judy Siegel
Fast of Tamuz starts the three weeks
Jerusalem Rost Staff
The fast of the 17th of Tamuz,
a day-long fast marking the
beginning of the three-week peri-
od of semi-mourning that culmi-
nates on Tisha he’ Av, is observed
today.
The fast began at daybreak (3:57
a.m.}> and will end at 8:07 this
evening.
During these three weeks,
known as bein hametzarim
(between the straits), marriages
are not held, some observant peo-
' pie do not listen to music, and
Ashkenazim traditionally do not
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By L1AT COLLINS
Justice Minister Tzahi Hanegbi
(Likud) yesterday defended having
earned money as the director of a
non-profit association fighting road
accidents, Derech Tzlaha, while
simultaneously promoting road-
safety legislation he had drawn up
with then Labor MK Jewish
Agency head Avraham Burg.
Hanegbi was responding to a
report in Ha’aretz, which ques-
tioned his having earned money
from a group promoting the legisla-
tion be himself had drawn up. He
apparently also was given use of a
car by the association. At the time,
Hanegbi also chaired die Knesset
Economics Committee, which was
discussing die legislation.
At a Knesset press conference
yesterday, Hanegbi said die House
rules at the time had not prevented
an MK from earning money from
outside sources. He said the
amount was reported and published
as required by law in die report on
MKs income published in May.
There it was listed as NIS 61,947,
which was within the accepted lim-
its for income for parliamentarians
until a new ban on moonlighting
came into effect
Hanegbi said he would be happy
to answer questions by the Ethics
Committee. “It was accepted prac-
tice," Hanegbi said “It was a norm.
Nothing was hidden or secret Even
Tzahi Hanegbi defends job
(Brian Headier)
Ha’aretz published announcements
lobbying for the bQl with my name
on diem.
“I think it is preferable to earn
income from a matter which is
entirely public related rather than
work as a lawyer or accountant, for
example," be said.
The Road Safety Law, which
among other things would establish
a national umbrella association to
deal with all aspects of combating
traffic accidents, is expected to
come up for its final readings in die
plenum today.
Hanegbi said several MKs had
established associations to promote
laws they had drawn up; including
Labor Whip Ra’anan Cohen, who
worked on legislation for demobi-
lized soldiers, Avraham Bing, who
also directed an , organization on
road safety, and Rafi Elul (Labor),
who headed an association dealing
with housing and poverty while
working cm legislation in this field.
Hanegbi said the law on immuni-
ty prevents him from revealing
who the donors to his organization
were. He said he had subnutted a
bill which would require this type
of organization to reveal its donors,
but the previous Knesset did not
promote the legislation. *
Knesset State Control Committee
chairman Ran Cohen (Meretz) said
work on tire road safety law should
have been part of Hanegbi ’s regular
parliamentary work and he should
not have earned money for it
He wrote to State Comptroller
Miriam Ben-Porat to see if it is
possible to reveal the identities of
the donors and what their interests
might have been, and asking her to
examine whether Hanegbi could be
considered guilty of accepting a
bribe.
Both Cohen and Burg denied
knowing of the existence of foe
organization Hanegbi established. .
IN CONTEXT / HERB KEINON
Barak takes the
‘Bibi bypass route’
In the six weeks since his elec-
tion as Labor Party chairman,
Ehud Barak has been to London
and Washington, to Cairo and
Amman. His trips to Europe and
foe US earned criticism from
Labor activists, who said that
rather than playing statesman, he
should concentrate on putting his
party back together.
On the other hand, his trips to
the Arab world - including last
week’s visit to Hosni Mubarak and'
yesterday’s meeting in Amman
with King Hussein - drew fire
from the right, with charges that
Ire is undermining Israel's bargain-
ing position, and giving the Arabs
a "Bibi bypass route."
More of the same criticism will
inevitably follow his scheduled
meeting later this week with
Yasser Arafat.
The criticism from foe right, how-
ever, has a somewhat hollow ring,
considering that Netanyahu - dur-
ing his stint as opposition leader -
was a frequent visitor to
Washington, speaking out against
Labor policy. Moreover, he was
also invited to see King Hussein,
and - just two months before the
election - was flown to Aqaba for a
meeting with Crown Prince Hassan.
Moshe Arens, a former ambas-
sador to the US. said that even
Ehod Barak on the fly (Israel smi
though “everybody does it," visits
by opposition politicians to the
world's leaders are wrong.
“Based on the norms in the demo-
cratic world, this type of practice is
not acceptable," Arens said. “Just
imagine if, during the Cold War era,
when negotiations were being con-
ducted under President Reagan, foe
leader of the Democratic party had
gone to Moscow."
The problem, Arens said, is foal
“negotiators in the Arab world will
think there are other options, and
that they don't have to come to
terms with foe present govern-
ment. It is not in the best interest of
the state," he said, "it undermines
Israel’s bargaining position."
But David Kimche, who served
as director general of the Foreign
Ministry from 1980 to 1987, sees
things differently. “I don’t think
this undermines the bargaining
position," he said. ’The govern-
ment has an embassy ihere’' able to
get its message across very well.
Kimche said the reason for
Hussein's invitation to Barak was
clean “Hussein is showing his dis-
pleasure with Netanyahu.*’ By foe
same token, Kimche said, when
the king invited Netanyahu to
Jordan, he was signaling his favor.
Shimon Shamir, who served as
Israel's ambassador to Egypt from
19S8 to 1990, and to Jordan from
1994 to 1 996, said it has long been
the Jordanian government’s policy
“maintain a dialogue with a
to
wide range of personalities on foe
Israeli political scene.” It is no
longer an issue, he said, because
so many people do it Invitations
to opposition leaders are “normal
procedure,” S hamir said.
Shamir said that die meetings are
seen by the Jordanians and
Egyptians as a way to better under-
stand Israeli positions, and an
opportunity to discuss different
views. Both Hussein and Mubarak,
Shamir said, realize that they can-
not “bring Labor back to power "
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maneuver initiated by United
Torah Judaism, the proposed Basic
Law: Social Rights failed prelimi-
nary reading in foe Knesset yester-
day by 50 to 59 votes. The vote
was turned into a no-confidence
motion two weeks ago as a delay-
ing tactic because the coalition was
not sure it bad foe necessary
majority to block iL It was submit-
ted by Histadrut head and Labor
MK Amir Peretz, along with a sim-
ilar bill by Anat Maor (Meretz).
National Religious Party MKs,
who earlier yesterday said they
would not take part in the no-confi-
dence motions, turned out for the
vote as part of foe fight by foe reli-
gious parties against all Basic Laws.
The bills would have anchored in
law foe right to organize and strike
in the workplace, as well as ensure
foe provision of basic services such
as health, education and welfare.
The religious parties have automat-
ically opposed Basic Laws, no mat-
ter what they pertain to, since the
Basic Law: Freedom of Occupation
payed the way for the sale of pork.
The coalition was not sure until
the last moment yesterday that it
would be able to muster enough
votes to defeat the bill, after foe
opposition broke its agreement on**
pairing off absent MKs
recalled Eitan Cabel (Labor) from
army reserve duty. Since it was
still not known how the NKP
would vote, . both . Science
Minister Michael;. Eitan and
Deputy Defense Minister Silvan
Shalom had tq draw out their
speeches until it became clear that
foe coalition had a majoriiy. _
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Shalom argued against raising the
bill in this Knesset after foe previ- -
ous Labor government had “made
sure it was put in the freezec. If
you thought the bill was such a
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in the last |ovemment?" he asked -
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Employment Service spokesman
Avner Michaeli confirmed yester-
day.
Michaeli could not say why die
request was found justified.
MK Ofir Pines, who raised foe.
issue at foe no-confidence motion
ployed young won^ who would
be happy to look after his chil-
di^ Pines said; .;
Pines, added feat ternunally. in
patients often, foe before getting a
P ermi t for. a foreign ' 24-hour
helper, due to the bureaucracy
involved.
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